单选题
James Waiters, CFA, is an active fixed income portfolio manager. He manages a portfolio of fixed income securities worth $ 7500000 for an institutional client. Waiters expects a widening yield spread between intermediate and long term securities. He would like to capitalize on his expectations and considers several transactions in a number of different securities. On 01/31/ 06, Waiters expects the yield of the 2 - Year Treasury Note to decrease by 10 basis points and the yield of the 30 - Year Treasury Bond to increase by 11 basis points. The characteristics of these two fixed income securities are shown in Table 1. Prices are quoted as a percentage of par value and the Price Value of a Basis Point is per $1 million par amount.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】 The change in value is computed as follows: Change in
ValueT-Note = Price Value of a Basis Point/10 × (-Yield
Change) So we have Price ChangeT-Rond =
186.6484/10×(-10 bp)=-$186.65.