Calculate the risk premium for each of the following rating classes of long-term securities, assuming that the yield to maturity (YTM) for comparable Treasuries is 4.11%.

Rating Class Nominal Interest Rate

AAA 4.64%

BBB 6.18

B 7.37

1 The risk premium for securities class AAA is __________% Round to two decimals

2 The risk premium for securities class BBB is ___________%Round to two decimals

3 The risk premium for securities class B is _____________% Round to two decimals

Carl Foster, a trainee at an investment banking firm, is trying to get an idea of what real rate of return investors are expecting in today's marketplace. He has looked up the rate paid on 3-month U.S. Treasury bills and found it to be 5.5%. He has decided to use the rate of change in the Consumer Price Index as a proxy for the inflationary expectations of investors. That annualized rate now stands at 3.0%. On the basis of the information that Carl has collected, what estimate can he make of the real rate of return?

The estimate of the rreal rate of return is___________% Round to one decimal place