1.Over the past year (from 1 year ago to today), the inflation rate was 6.44 percent, the risk-free rate was 8.53 percent, and the real rate of return for a bond was 7.39 percent. The bond was priced at 1,216.81 dollars one year ago and 1,237.54 dollars two years ago, pays annual coupons of 46.68 dollars, and just made a coupon payment. What is the price of the bond today?
2. A stock had returns of 18 percent, 39 percent, and -18 percent over the past three years. What was the standard deviation of the stock's returns?
Note: when relevant, use 1/3 instead of an approximation like 0.3333 as the weight, as it will make numbers more "round" and easier to work with. Answer as a rate in decimal format so that 12.34% would be entered as .1234 and 0.98% would be entered as .0098.