01. Financial markets that facilitate the flow of long-term funds with maturities of more than one year are known as ____________.
02. Financial markets facilitating the issuance of new securities are known as ___________.
a. money markets
03. ____________ are not considered capital market securities.
a. bonds
04. _________ are financial contracts whose values are obtained from the values of underlying assets.
a. Bonds
05. A bank's ______ quote is slightly higher than its _______ quote.
a. ask; bid
06. In a(n) _________ market, all information about any securities for sale is continuously and freely available to investors.
a. inefficient
07. _________ are depository financial institutions.
a. Savings banks
08. In aggregate, ____________ are the most dominant depository institution.
a. credit unions
09. ________ sell shares to surplus units and use the funds received to purchase a portfolio of securities. They are the dominant nondepository financial institution when measured in total assets.
a. Securities firms
10. The main source of funds for ________________ is deposits from households, businesses, and government agencies, while their main use of funds is the purchase of government and corporate securities and mortgages and other loans to households.
a. savings institutions
11. The Govt.government commonly acts as a surplus unit.
a. True12. An investor who holds bonds has partial ownership in a corporation.
a. True
13. When security prices fully reflect all available information, the markets for these securities are said to be efficient.
a. True
14. To prevent overreactions to rumors, so-called circuit breakers are now used to permanently halt the trading of some securities or contracts.
a. True
15. Securities firms can act both as brokers and as dealers.
a. True
16. Which of the following is not a money market security?
a. Treasury bill
17. Treasury bills
a. offer coupon payments.
18. An investor purchases a six-month (182-day) T-bill with a Rs10,000 par value for Rs9,850. If the investor holds the Treasury bill to maturity, his annualized yield is ____ percent.
a. 1.52
19 An investor purchases a six-month (182-day) T-bill with a Rs10,000 par value for Rs9,850. If the investor holds the Treasury bill to maturity, the Treasury bill discount yield is ______ percent.
a. 3.0520. An investor purchases a six-month (182-day) T-bill with a Rs10,000 par value for Rs9,850. If the investor had sold the T-bill after 100 days for Rs9,940, her annualized yield would be _______ percent.
a. 3.34
21. At a given point in time, the yield on commercial paper is __________ the yield on a T-bill with the same maturity.
a. slightly lower than
22. (Financial calculator required.) An investor would like to purchase a bond that has a par value of Rs1,000 and pays Rs60 at the end of each year in coupon payments. The bond has seven years remaining until it matures. If the prevailing annualized yield on other bonds with similar characteristics is 5 percent, how much should the investor be willing to pay for the bond?
a. Rs1,000.00
23. Jerry Garcia purchased a Rs1,000 par value bond with a 9 percent annual coupon rate and an original maturity of 20 years. The bond was issued four years ago, and the yield to maturity is 11 percent. What is the price Mr. Garcia should be willing to pay for this bond?
a. Rs1,166.25
24. If a bond pays interest semiannually, which of the following adjustments needs to be made to correctly compute the price of the bond?
a. The number of years should be split in half.
25. A private investor is considering the purchase of a Rs1,000 par value bond paying interest semiannually. The bond has an annualized coupon rate of 8 percent, and bonds with similar characteristics pay interest rates of 6 percent. The bond has 15 years remaining to maturity. A fair price for the bond is Rs_________.
a. 1,000.00
26. If a bond sells above its par value, it is called a __________ bond.
a. discount
27. If the coupon rate of a bond is _______ the yield to maturity, the price of the bond should be _________ the par value.
a. below; above
28. A _________ than expected level of inflation will put _________ pressure on the value of bonds.
a. higher; downward
29. A zero-coupon bond sells for Rs1,000. Assume that the required rate of return changes from 6 percent to 5 percent. As a result, the price of the zero bond increases to Rs1,070. What is the bond price elasticity for this bond?
a. -7.00
30. A bond has a par value of Rs1,000 and pays Rs100 in interest every year. The bond has three years remaining to maturity, and the yield to maturity is 8 percent. What is the duration of this bond?
a. 2.74 years
31. Refer to question 9. The modified duration of this bond is _______ years.
a. 2.40
32. Three bonds comprise a portfolio that is valued at Rs500,000. The investment in the first bond is Rs100,000, the investment in the second bond is Rs200,000, and the investment in the third bond is Rs200,000. The first bond has a duration of 1.8 years, the second bond has a duration of 1.7 years, and the third bond has a duration of 2.0 years. What is the duration of the portfolio of bonds?
a. 1.84 years
33. In the ____________ strategy, funds are evenly allocated to bonds in each of several different maturity classes.
a. matching
34. Strong economic growth tends to place downward pressure on interest rates.
a. True35. As interest rates decrease, short-term bond prices increase by a greater degree than long-term bond prices.
a. True
36. An investor purchases 270-day commercial paper with a par value of Rs2,000,000 for a price of Rs1,960,000. The yield is ______ percent.
a. 2.76
37. Which of the following financial institutions does not frequently participate in repurchase agreements?
a. banks
38. In the ____________ strategy, funds are evenly allocated to bonds in each of several different maturity classes.
a. matching
39. If short-term interest rates decline, the required rate of return on money market securities will ________, and the values of money market securities will _________.
a. increase; decline
40. Which of the following securities probably has the lowest degree of default risk?
a. Treasury bill
41. _________ have the highest degree of interest rate risk.
a. Fixed-rate eurodollar CDs
42. The yield of a newly issued Treasury bill that is held to maturity will always be Lower than the Treasury bill Discount.
a. True
43. Commercial paper is a short-term debt instrument issued only by well- known, credit-worthy firms and is typically unsecured.
a. True
44. When firms sell their commercial paper at a lower price than projected, their cost of raising funds will be higher than they initially anticipated.
a. True45. There is an active secondary market for repos.
a. True
46. During periods of heightened uncertainty about the economy, investors tend shift from risky money market securities to Treasury securities.
a. True
47. If a bond pays interest semiannually, which of the following adjustments needs to be made to correctly compute the price of the bond?
a. The number of years should be split in half.
48. A private investor is considering the purchase of a Rs1,000 par value bond paying interest semiannually. The bond has an annualized coupon rate of 8 percent, and bonds with similar characteristics pay interest rates of 6 percent. The bond has 15 years remaining to maturity. A fair price for the bond is Rs_________.
a. 1,000.00
49. If a bond sells above its par value, it is called a __________ bond.
a. discount
50. If the coupon rate of a bond is _______ the yield to maturity, the price of the bond should be _________ the par value.
a. below; above