Calculate the price impact on a 10-year corporate bond with a 4.75% coupon priced at 100, with

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Calculate the price impact on a 10-year corporate bond with a 4.75% coupon priced at 100, with an instantaneous 50 bps widening in spread due to the issuer’s announcement that it was adding substantial debt to finance an acquisition (which resulted in a twonotch downgrade by the rating agencies). The bond has a modified duration of 7.9, and its convexity is 74.9.

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Fixed Income Analysis

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Authors: Barbara S. Petitt

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