Bandon Manufacturing intends to issue callable, perpetual bonds with annual coupon payments and a par value of

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Bandon Manufacturing intends to issue callable, perpetual bonds with annual coupon payments and a par value of $1,000. The bonds are callable at $1,140. One-year interest rates are 9 percent. There is a 60 percent probability that long-term interest rates one year from today will be 10 percent and a 40 percent probability that they will be 8 percent. Assume that if interest rates fall, the bonds will be called. What coupon rate should the bonds have in order to sell at par value?

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Corporate Finance

ISBN: 9781260772388

13th Edition

Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe

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