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HI I am having trouble calculating this yield to maturity for a 7% semi-annual corporate bond with 3 years left to maturity is selling in

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I am having trouble calculating this yield to maturity for a 7% semi-annual corporate bond with 3 years left to maturity is selling in the market at $127.5117. My asnwer for the YTM is negative which is not right. Please help!!! Thank you so much

In excel I used =rate(nper,pmt,pv,fv) =rate(6,3.5,-127.5117,100)=

-0.9362%

my yield to maturity is

YTM= -0.018724

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