a) Consider the following, a AAA rated Treasury bond with a face value of $1000, maturing in 20 years and paying 14.00 per cent per annum coupons semi-annually. If current market yields for this type of security are 12.00 per cent per annum, what price would you pay for the instrument?

b) What will happen to the price of the bond if yields adjust from 12.00 to 10.00 percent per annum?

c) Consider now the bonds noted above in (a) and (b). What generalisation emerges from the examples concerning the response of prices of bond market instruments when there is a change in yields? d) What implications do the coupon size and term to maturity have for the duration or interest rate sensitivity of a Bond?