You are pricing a 10-year, 7 percent coupon bond with a $1,000 face value. Coupon payments are made semi-annually and the first payment is due in exactly six months. Other semi-annual pay bonds of similar maturity and credit quality are trading at a default spread of 1% over and above the yield to maturity of the 10-year Government issued bond, which is 6.0% pa. Compute the fair value of this bond

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You are pricing a 10-year, 7 percent coupon bond with a $1,000 face value. Coupon payments are made semi-annually and the first payment is due in exactly six months. Other semi-annual pay bonds of similar maturity and credit quality are trading at a default spread of 1% over and above the yield to maturity of the 10-year Government issued bond, which is 6.0% pa. Compute the fair value of this bond

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