Use the Table for the Question(s)below

question 11

Essay

Use the table for the question(s)below.
Consider the following four bonds that pay annual coupons:
-Assume that the YTM increases by 1% for each of the four bonds listed.Rank the bonds based upon the sensitivity of their prices from least to most sensitive.

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Definitions:

Louisiana Purchase

President Thomas Jefferson’s 1803 purchase from France of the important port of New Orleans and 828,000 square miles west of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains; it more than doubled the territory of the United States at a cost of only $15 million.

Democrats

Members or supporters of the Democratic Party in the United States, one of the two major contemporary political parties in the country, generally representing liberal and progressive positions.

Forty-ninth Parallel

The 49th parallel north, a circle of latitude that is 49 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, often referred to as the boundary between Canada and the United States in the western part of North America.

Northern Whigs

A political faction active in the 19th century United States, which opposed the Democratic Party and supported modernization, the federal bank, and anti-slavery policies.