Suppose that you purchased a Baa rated $1000 annual coupon bond with an 8.1% coupon rate and a 9-year maturity at par value. The current rate on 9-year US treasuries is 3%. Two years later, you look in the newspaper, and find that the yield on comparable debt is 6.892%, how much is the bond currently worth?
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Value of Bond =
Where r is the discounting rate of a compounding period i.e. 6.892%
And n is the no of Compounding periods 7 years
Coupon 8.1%
=
= 1065.35
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