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Google issued a bond on 1/1/20X1. The bond has $1,000 face value, a 8% coupon rate, and it matures on 1/1/20X9. Today, 1/2/20X7, the bond is trading at $990 per bond. The remaining contractual cash flows for this bond are as listed below. Date Cash Flow 7/1/20X7 $40 1/1/20X8 $40 7/1/20X8 $40 1/1/20X9 $40 1/1/20X9 $1,000 What is the Yield to Maturity (YTM) of this bond today? Hints: Start with your answer from the previous Google bond question. Remember YTM = EAIR. (Do not round intermediate calculations and do not enter your answer as a percent. Round your answer to 3 decimal places, e.g., 0.315 instead of 31.5%).

          Google issued a bond on 1/1/20X1. The bond has $1,000 face value, a 8% coupon rate, and it matures on 1/1/20X9. Today, 1/2/20X7, the bond is trading at $990 per bond. The remaining contractual cash flows for this bond are as listed below.
Date	Cash Flow
7/1/20X7	$40
1/1/20X8	$40
7/1/20X8	$40
1/1/20X9	$40
1/1/20X9	$1,000
What is the Yield to Maturity (YTM) of this bond today?
Hints: Start with your answer from the previous Google bond question. Remember YTM = EAIR.
(Do not round intermediate calculations and do not enter your answer as a percent. Round your answer to 3 decimal places, e.g., 0.315 instead of 31.5%).

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Google issued a bond on 1/1/20X1. The bond has 1,000 face value, a 8% coupon rate, and it matures on 1/1/20X9. Today, 1/2/20X7, the bond is trading at $990 per bond. The remaining contractual cash flows for this bond are as listed below.
Date Cash Flow
7/1/20X740
1/1/20X8 40
7/1/20X840
1/1/20X9 40
1/1/20X91,000
What is the Yield to Maturity (YTM) of this bond today?
Hints: Start with your answer from the previous Google bond question. Remember YTM = EAIR.
(Do not round intermediate calculations and do not enter your answer as a percent. Round your answer to 3 decimal places, e.g., 0.315 instead of 31.5%).

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To calculate the present value of the remaining cash flows, we need to discount each cash flow back to today's date using the yield to maturity (YTM) as the discount rate. PV(7/1/20X7) = $540 / (1 + YTM)^0.5 PV(1/1/20X8) = $540 / (1 + YTM)^1 PV(7/1/20X8) = $540 / Show more…

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Google issued a bond on 1/1/20X1. The bond has a $1,000 face value, an 8% coupon rate, and it matures on 1/1/20X9. Today, 1/2/20X7, the bond is trading at $990 per bond. The remaining contractual cash flows for this bond are as listed below: Date Cash Flow 7/1/20X7 $540 1/1/20X8 $540 7/1/20X8 $540 1/1/20X9 $540 1/1/20X9 $51,000 What is the Yield to Maturity (YTM) of this bond today? Answer from the previous Google bond question: Remember YTM EAIR Hints: Start with your (Do not round intermediate calculations and do not enter your answer as a percent: Round your answer to 3 decimal places e.g. 0.315 instead of 31.5%.)

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