What is a yield curve? What is a term structure of interest rates? How does yield curve and term structure differ?
What do you learn from each shape of the yield curve and how can yield curve and term structure help you make lending and borrowing decisions?
Compute the Spot rate using the following information on Treasury securities
Suppose two years from now you want to borrow money for ten years, how would you compute implied forward rate? (Just write the formula for it)
Period Maturity Coupon Rate/YTM Spot Rate Price
1 0.5 10.00% $100
2 1.0 9.50% $100
3 1.5 9.45% $100
4 2.0 9.25% $100