1. Suppose you have $850 and plan to purchase a 5-year certificate of deposit (CD) that pays 3.5% interest, compounded annually. How much will you have when the CD matures?

1. Suppose a State of California bond will pay $1,000 eight years from now. If the going interest rate on these 8-year bonds is 5.4%, how much is the bond worth today?

1. Suppose the U.S. Treasury offers to sell you a bond for $687.25. No payments will be made until the bond matures 5 years from now, at which time it will be redeemed for $1,000. What interest rate would you earn if you bought this bond at the offer price?

1. Your uncle is about to retire, and he wants to buy an annuity that will provide him with $80,000 of income a year for 20 years, with the first payment coming immediately. The going rate on such annuities is 5.25%. How much would it cost him to buy the annuity today?

1. Your uncle has $795,000 and wants to retire. He expects to live for another 25 years and to earn 7.5% on his invested funds. How much could he withdraw at the end of each of the next 25 years and end up with zero in the account?

1. Your girlfriend just won the Florida lottery. She has the choice of $11,500,000 today or a 20-year annuity of $1,050,000, with the first payment coming one year from today. What rate of return is built into the annuity? Disregard taxes.

1. Master Card and other credit card issuers must by law print the Annual Percentage Rate (APR) on their monthly statements. If the APR is stated to be 24.50%, with interest paid monthly, what is the card's EFF%?

1. Suppose you are buying your first condo for $160,000, and you will make a $15,000 down payment. You have arranged to finance the remainder with a 30-year, monthly payment, amortized mortgage at a 6.5% nominal interest rate, with the first payment due in one month. What will your monthly payments be?

1. Suppose the real risk-free rate is 4.20%, the average expected future inflation rate is 2.50%, and a maturity risk premium of 0.10% per year to maturity applies, i.e., MRP = 0.10%(t), where t is the number of years to maturity, hence the pure expectations theory is NOT valid. What rate of return would you expect on a 4-year Treasury security?

1. Suppose 10-year T-bonds have a yield of 5.30% and 10-year corporate bonds yield 6.65%. Also, corporate bonds have a 0.25% liquidity premium versus a zero liquidity premium for T-bonds, and the maturity risk premium on both Treasury and corporate 10-year bonds is 1.15%. What is the default risk premium on corporate bonds?

1. 5-year Treasury bonds yield 4.4%. The inflation premium (IP) is 1.9%, and the maturity risk premium (MRP) on 5-year T-bonds is 0.4%. There is no liquidity premium on these bonds. What is the real risk-free rate, r*?

1. Ryngaert Inc. recently issued noncallable bonds that mature in 15 years. They have a par value of $1,000 and an annual coupon of 5.7%. If the current market interest rate is 7.0%, at what price should the bonds sell?

1. Radoski Corporation's bonds make an annual coupon interest payment of 7.35% every year. The bonds have a par value of $1,000, a current price of $920, and mature in 12 years. What is the yield to maturity on these bonds?

1. Assume that you are considering the purchase of a 20-year, noncallable bond with an annual coupon rate of 9.5%. The bond has a face value of $1,000, and it makes semiannual interest payments. If you require an 10.7% nominal yield to maturity on this investment, what is the maximum price you should be willing to pay for the bond?

1. Keenan Industries has a bond outstanding with 15 years to maturity, an 8.25% nominal coupon, semiannual payments, and a $1,000 par value. The bond has a 6.50% nominal yield to maturity, but it can be called in 6 years at a price of $1,045. What is the bonds nominal yield to call?

1. O'Brien Ltd.'s outstanding bonds have a $1,000 par value, and they mature in 25 years. Their nominal annual, not semiannual yield to maturity is 9.25%, they pay interest semiannually, and they sell at a price of $875. What is the bond's nominal coupon interest rate?