The yield on the Moody's Baa index

In the previous chapter, you valued a bond with a $100 par value, 5% coupon rate, and 5 years to maturity. You then assumed a yield to maturity of 6% for that bond. Recall from the video that a bond's yield can be estimated by looking at the yield of comparable bonds.

In this exercise, you'll assume that the bond you valued has a Baa credit rating by Moody's and the bond will be issued on September 30, 2016. With this information, you can use the quantmod package in R to obtain the yield of the Moody's Baa index (use the ticker "DBAA" from src = "FRED") on September 30, 2016.

This exercise is part of the course

Bond Valuation and Analysis in R

Exercise instructions

Use library() to load the quantmod package.
Use getSymbols() to obtain data on Moody's Baa index ("DBAA"). Save this data to baa.
Identify the yield for baa on September 30, 2016 using square brackets. Save this to baa_yield.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Load quantmod library


# Obtain Moody's Baa index data
baa <- getSymbols("___", src = "FRED", auto.assign = FALSE)

# Identify 9/30/16 yield
baa_yield <- baa["___"]

baa_yield

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Bond Valuation and Analysis in R

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The fixed income market is large and filled with complex instruments. In this course, we focus on plain vanilla bonds to build solid fundamentals you will need to tackle more complex fixed income instruments. In this chapter, we demonstrate the mechanics of valuing bonds by focusing on an annual coupon, fixed rate, fixed maturity, and option-free bond.

Exercise 1: Introduction Exercise 2: Price vs. value Exercise 3: Time value of money Exercise 4: Computing a bond's future value Exercise 5: Computing a bond's present value Exercise 6: Bond valuation Exercise 7: Laying out the bond's cash flows Exercise 8: Discounting bond cash flows with a known yield Exercise 9: Convert your code into a function Exercise 10: Convert your code into a bond valuation function

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Exercise 1: Price-yield relationship Exercise 2: Credit ratings Exercise 3: The yield on the Moody's Baa index

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Exercise 1: Bond price volatility and the price value of a basis point Exercise 2: Price value of a basis point Exercise 3: Calculate PV01 of a 10% bond Exercise 4: Duration Exercise 5: Duration of a zero-coupon bond Exercise 6: Calculate approximate duration for a bond Exercise 7: Estimating effect on bond price using duration Exercise 8: Convexity Exercise 9: Calculate approximate convexity for a bond Exercise 10: Estimating effect of convexity on bond price Exercise 11: Estimating the bond price using duration and convexity

We will put all of the techniques that the student has learned from Chapters One through Three into one comprehensive example. The student will be asked to value a bond by using the yield on a comparable bond and estimate the bond's duration and convexity.

Exercise 1: Summarizing the main lessons Exercise 2: Find AAA bond yields as of September 30, 2016 Exercise 3: Bond valuation Exercise 4: Alternative cash flow vector code Exercise 5: Duration and convexity Exercise 6: Direction of price change Exercise 7: Calculate duration Exercise 8: Calculate convexity measure Exercise 9: The estimated price change using duration and convexity Exercise 10: Congratulations!