Problem:
The numbers provided are in thousands of dollars.
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Treasury bill
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$90
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Time deposits
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$1,100
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Treasury notes
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$55
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Fed funds sold
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$ 230
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Treasury bonds
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$176
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Demand deposits
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$2,500
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Loans
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$4,679
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Equity
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$1,170
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Notes: All Treasury bills have six months until maturity. One-year Treasury notes are priced at par and have a coupon of 7 percent paid semiannually. Treasury bonds have an average duration of 4.5 years and the loan portfolio has a duration of 7 years. Time deposits have a 1-year duration and the Fed funds duration is .003 years.
1. What is the duration of the bank's Treasury note portfolio?
a. 1.07 years.
b. 1.00 year.
c. 0.98 years.
d. 0.92 years.
e. Insufficient information.
2. What is the bank's leverage adjusted duration gap?
a. +6.73 years.
b. +0.29 years.
c. -6.44 years.
d. +6.51 years.
e. 0 years.
3. If all interest rates fall by 1 percent, calculate the impact on the bank's market value of equity using the duration approximation. (That is, DR/(1+R) = -1 percent)
a. The bank's market value of equity increases by $325,450.
b. The bank's market value of equity decreases by $325,450.
c. The bank's market value of equity increases by $336,500.
d. The bank's market value of equity decreases by $336,500.
e. There is no change in the bank's market value of equity.
Additional Information:
These short questions is from Finance and the questions deal with treasury notes of bank. The duration of the Treasury note portfolio, leverage adjusted duration gap as well as fall in interest and impact on bank's market value of equity needs to be computed.