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- From: john@amc.com (John Sambrook)
- Subject: Interest rates on US Savings Bonds ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.065530.9180@amc.com>
- Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:55:30 GMT
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- Howdy :-)
-
- I'm working my way through the (excellent!) book "Computer Aided
- Financial Analysis" by Ross M. Miller, and I thought I would go ahead
- and try my hand at creating some valuation models. For this first
- attempt, I'm working on creating a valuation model for Series EE US
- Savings Bonds.
-
- If I understand correctly Savings Bonds pay interest as follows:
-
- 1. The normal interest rate is 85% of the average five-year
- Treasury rate, for the period the bonds were held.
-
- 2. If the bonds are held for five years, the interest rate
- is guaranteed to be at least 6.0%.
-
- 3. Interest is credited monthly for the first 30 months, and
- every six months thereafter.
-
- 4. After 30 years no more interest payments are made.
-
- My questions are as follows:
-
- 1. Are the statements above correct?
-
- 2. How is the "average five-year Treasury rate" computed?
- In particular, I don't know what Treasury instruments
- participate in the computation and how often the interest
- rate is sampled. Also, I would like to know where I can
- get historical data for these five-year interest rates,
- since it seems my model will need to have a database of
- these values over the years.
-
- 3. Concerning the 6.0% guaranteed minimum for bonds held for
- at least five years, I would like to know how long this
- rate has been in effect, and again, where I can get
- historical data for how it has changed over the years.
-
- BTW, I'm working in Common Lisp and CLOS, but I would be happy to
- share anything I can with anyone who wants it.
-
-
-
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