FINE 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Interest Rate, High-Yield Debt, Corporate Bond
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14 Jun 2016
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The interest payment paid to the bondholders is called the coupon coupon rate is the annual interest payment divided by the face value of the bond. The interest rate (or discount rate) is the rate at which the cash flows from the bond are discounted to determine its present value. The coupon rate and the discount rate are not necessarily the same! When they are not, the price of the bond is not the same as its face value. The price of a bond is the present value of all its future cash flows, that is, it is the present value of the coupon payments and the face value of the bond. Given same coupon rate, higher the interest rate -> lower current price of bond: bond value discounted by interest rate, coupon rate = rate at which interest in earned. Coupon rate is used to calculate value of payments (interest payments)
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The yield to maturity on a bond is __________________ .
a. | below the coupon rate when the bond sells at a discount, and above the coupon rate when the bond sells at a premium. | |
b. | the discount rate that will set the present value of the future cash payments of interest and principal equal to the bond price. | |
c. | based on the assumption that any payments received are reinvested at the coupon rate. | |
d. | none of the above. |