E2
Floating-Rate Notes
Price a floating-rate note off projected reference rates, solve for its discount margin, and see its risk split into rate duration and spread duration.
Learning focus: FRNs carry little interest-rate risk, because the coupon resets, but the full credit-spread risk of a fixed-rate bond of the same maturity.
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Rates and price
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