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You enter into a forward contract to buy a 10-year, zero-coupon bond that will be issued in one year. The face value of the bond is $1,000, and the 1-year and 11-year spot interest rates are 6.8 percent and 8.8 percent, respectively. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round the final answers to 2 decimal places. Omit $ sign in your response. a. What is the forward price of your contract? Forward price b. Suppose both the 1-year and 11-year spot rates unexpectedly shift downward by 2.5 percent. What is the new price of the forward contract? New forward price

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