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The Skalmory Corporation has entered into a three-year interest rate swap, with semiannual settlement, to pay a fixed rate of 7.5 percent per year and receive six-month LIBOR. The notional principal is $10,000,000.
-Refer to Exhibit 15.17. Assuming that one year after the swap was initiated the fixed rate on a new two-year receive fixed pay floating LIBOR swap has fallen to 7 percent per year, calculate the market value of the 7.5 percent fixed rate bond based on a $100 face value. Settlement is on a semiannual basis.
A) $101.33
B) $100.92
C) $100.00
D) $98.67
E) $95.83

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The Skalmory Corporation has entered into a three-year interest rate swap, with semiannual settlement, to pay a fixed rate of 7.5 percent per year and receive six-month LIBOR. The notional principal is $10,000,000.
-Refer to Exhibit 15.17. Assuming that one year after the swap was initiated the fixed rate on a new two-year receive fixed pay floating LIBOR swap has fallen to 7 percent per year, calculate the market value of the 7.5 percent fixed rate bond based on a $100 face value. Settlement is on a semiannual basis.
A) $101.33
B) $100.92
C) $100.00
D) $98.67
E) $95.83