Bond Pricing

/in /by

Bond A

YTM = 6%
C = 9%
N = 12 years semi

of bonds = 319

Bond B

YTM = 8%
C = 10%
N = 8 years semi

of bonds = 537

Calculate the price and value of each bond and the portfolio
Calculate each bond’s duration and the weighted average duration of the portfolio
If the available futures is price 98, duration 5, and you desire a net short duration of negative 2, calculate the # of contracts needed.
Simulate a 150-bps increase in IR.
Prove your answer: Impact of bond portfolio + impact of futures contract must equal the simulation (desired) portfolio

Sample Solution

The post Bond Pricing appeared first on homework handlers.

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

/in /by

In The Yellow Wallpaper
Gilman portrays the narrator’s insanity as a way to protest the medical and professional
oppression against women at the time. While under the impression that husbands and
male doctors were acting with their best interests in mind, women were depicted as
mentally weak and fragile. At the time women’s rights advocates believed that the
outbreak of women being diagnosed as mentally ill was the manifestation of their
setbacks regarding the roles they were allowed to play in a male-dominated society.
Women were even discouraged from writing, because their writing would ultimately
create an identity and become a form of defiance for them. Gilman realized that writing
became one of the only forms of existence for women at a time where they had very few
rights. In what ways did/does/will writing afford women a right and voice?
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-WallPaper.pdf

Sample Solution

The post The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman appeared first on homework handlers.

Inflation and You

/in /by

Read the attached article from The Wall Street Journal.

Questions:

  • Have you noticed a “general rise in prices of the time” (the definition of inflation!) for the things you routinely spend money on, since the beginning of the pandemic lockdown (mid-March)? If so, for what types of items?
  • Have you seen any goods/services for which there as been deflation? For the goods/services you’ve mentioned, what do you think are the underlying causes?

Sample Solution

The post Inflation and You appeared first on homework handlers.

Natural Indicators

/in /by

  1. Explain the meaning of the following terms:
    a. Acid – an acid is defined as a substance that gives hydrogen ion (H + -) or a hydronium ion
    (H 3 O + -) when dissolved in water.
    b. Base – A base is defined as a substance that gives hydroxide ion (OH – -) when dissolved in
    water. Bases accepts protons
    c. Indicator – – could be a weak acid or a weak base that exhibits a color change as the concentration of hydrogen or hydroxide ions changes in a solution
    d. Natural indicator – it is a naturally occurring substance that can be used to determine PH of
    another substance

Sample Solution

The post Natural Indicators appeared first on homework handlers.