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Floating-rate bond

Using Excel or your favorite software:
(a)
A 5-year Measury newly issued on August 15, 2021 would have a coupon equal to the 5-year par coupon and would have been priced at par. Confirm that your par coupon results in a par price for this bond. (b) Calculate the 6-month forward rates for all the cash-flow dates of your 5-year bond. Confirm that a 5-year floating rate bond with coupons equal to the forward rates prices at par. (c) Consider the case where the Federal Reserve increases rates in a way that results in an increase of all forward rates by 200 basis points: i. Recalculate the price of the fixed-rate bond using the par coupon you calcu-lated in part 4(a) above. Note that the discount factors will have changed because of the parallel shift in the forward curve. Briefly explain the price change or lack thereof. ii. Recalculate the price of the 5-year floating-rate bond. Briefly explain the price change or lack thereof. (d) A security known as an intemst-rate swap can be modeled as a portfolio consisting of either (i) a long position in a floating-rate bond and a short position in a fixed-rate bond (a payer swap) or (ii) a long position in a fixed-rate bond and a short position in a floating-rate bond (a receiver swap)) Briefly explain: • The price of the swap when the swap is created. • How changes in the yield curve after the swap is created result in changes to the swap price.

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