Question: Today's date is 12 March 2022. Using this information, consider the following debt securities. Official Cash Rate : is 0.50% Bank Bill : A bank
Today's date is 12 March 2022. Using this information, consider the following debt securities.
Official Cash Rate: is 0.50%
Bank Bill: A bank bill with a face value of $7.125 million which has 391 days to maturity and is trading at a yield of 0.72%
Bond A $52.8412 million face value bond which has a 1.45% coupon, a 20 March 2042 maturity, that is trading at a yield to maturity of 2.17% p.a.
Required
- In one word, what is the shape of the yield curve?
- What is the fair market price for:
- Bank bill
- Bond
- 370 days later, there is a parallel increase in yields across the yield curve by 0.13% (ie if the yield two days earlier was 0.52% it now is 0.65%). What is the fair market price for your debt securitites now?
- Bank bill
ii. Bond
- In percentrage terms to two decimal places, what is the annualised holding period return for the holder of the bond over the period
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