FIN 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bid Price, Money Market Fund, United States Treasury Security

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Money market- short-term debt securities that are highly marketable. Money market mutual funds are accessible to small investors. Treasury bills- most marketable of all money market instruments simplest form of borrowing. Gov raises money by selling bills to the public. T-bills have maturities of 4, 13, 26, or 52 weeks- highly liquid. Exempt from state and local taxes but not federal taxes. Asked price- price you would have to pay to buy a t-bill from securities dealer. Bid price- slightly lower price you would get if you wanted to sell a bill. Bid ask spread difference between these two prices = dealer"s source of profit. So ,000 (1 bid yield x dtm / 360) = bid price. And the higher the bid yield is, the lower the bid price is. Dealer willing to sell bill at discount of . 040% x (177/360) = . 0197% So a bill with a ,000 face value could be bought for ,000 x (1-. 000197) = 9998. 03.

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