chapter 10: understanding interest rates Flashcards
yield to maturity
the most accurate measure of interest rates
what economists mean when they use the term interest rate
streams of cash payments to the holder
cash flows
present value or present discounted value
based on the commonsense notion that a dollar paid to you one year from now is less valuable to you than a dollar paid to you today
In this loan, the lender provides the principal that must be repaid to the lender at the maturity date along with an additional payment for the interest
a simple loan
simple interest rate
the interest payment divided by the amount of the loan
The process of calculating today’s value of dollars received in the future
discounting the future
using PV
FV
forumla to calculate PV
PV = FV / (1 + i)^n
four basic types of credit market instruments
A simple loan
fixed-payment loan (fully amortized loan)
a coupon bond
A discount bond
fixed-payment loan (fully amortized loan)
the lender provides the borrower with an amount of funds, which must be repaid by making the same payment every period (such as a month)
must pay the debt service you already know
a coupon bond
pays the owner of the bond a fixed interest payment (coupon payment) every year until the maturity date
at the maturity date, a specified final amount is repaid
face value or par value of a bond
amount you have to repay at the maturity date
three pieces of information that define a bond
- the corporation or government agency that issues the bond
- the maturity date of the bond
- the bond’s coupon rate
the bond’s coupon rate
the dollar amount of the yearly coupon payment expressed as a percentage of the face value of the bond
A discount bond (also called a zero-coupon bond)
bought at a price below its face value (at discount)
the face value is repaid at the maturity date
bond bought at discount
bought at a price below its face value
most important way of calculating interest rates
the yield to maturity