A 30-year maturity bond has a 5.6% coupon rate, paid annually. It sells today for $876.17. A 20-year maturity bond has a 5.1% coupon rate, also paid annually. It sells today for $896.9. A bond market analyst forecasts that in five years, 25-year maturity bonds will sell at yields to maturity of 6.6% and 15-year maturity bonds will sell at yields of 6.1%. Because the yield curve is upward sloping, the analyst believes that coupons will be invested in short-term securities at a rate of 7.1%. A. Calculate the (annualized) expected rate of return of the 30-year bond over the 5-year period.
B. What is the (annualized) expected return of the 20-year bond?

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Consider the scenario below and let us know if you believe lauren smith's actions to be ethical. let us know why or why not. lauren smith is the controller for sports central, a chain of sporting goods stores. she has been asked to recommend a site for a new store. lauren has an uncle who owns a shopping plaza in the area of town where the new store is to be located, so she decides to contact her uncle about leasing space in his plaza. lauren also contacted several other shopping plazas and malls, but her uncle’s store turned out to be the most economical place to lease. therefore, lauren recommended locating the new store in her uncle’s shopping plaza. in making her recommendation to management, she did not disclose that her uncle owns the shopping plaza. if management decided to go with lauren's uncle's plaza, what additional information would be needed in the financial statements?

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