Elson co, needs to raise debt and for this purpose issued two different bonds, Bond A and Bond B. Both bonds have 20 years to maturity with a face value of $20000. Bond A will make no coupon payment over the entire life, however Bond B is a semiannual coupon bond. It will make first coupon payment of $1100 at sixth year semiannually for the next 8 years. After that it will make coupon payment of $1400 for the rest of its remaining life. Find the price of Bond A and B if the required rate of return on these bonds is 7 percent compounded semiannually.

Stocks a, b, and c are similar in some respects: each has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 25%. stocks a and b have returns that are independent of one another; i. e., their correlation coefficient, r, equals zero. stocks a and c have returns that are negatively correlated with one another; i. e., r is less than 0. portfolio ab is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half in stock b. portfolio ac is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half invested in stock c. which of the following statements is correct? a. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.b. portfolio ac has an expected return that is less than 10%.c. portfolio ac has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.d. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is equal to 25%.e. portfolio ac has an expected return that is greater than 25%.