Economics Go to the Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED) at the St. Louis Fed’s website. For this question, you will need to download the 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate (DGS10) between January 1st 2001 to January 1st 2011. Edit the data on the website to make sure that it is at the monthly frequency instead of the daily rate. Download it as an Excel spreadsheet. (Feel free to add/copy it to a new worksheet in the workbook that you used back up in question 1 of this assignment.) Note: the series that you download will still be an annualized series (i.e. the interest rates depicted are what they would be per year, instead of per month.) a. [4 pt] Suppose you were considering buying a $1000 coupon bond with a 8% (annual) Page 2 Econ 354: Money and Banking Prof. Yamin Ahmad coupon rate back in January of 2001 that would mature in January of 2011. In addition, suppose that you were expecting the interest rate on Treasuries to stay at 5.16% per annum (which it was on January 1st, 2001) for the entire 10 years. If the coupon payments are equally
