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If you purchase a bond with a 6.0% coupon at par, its yield to maturity is 6.0%. If you pay more than par, the yield to maturity will be lower than the coupon rate. If purchased below par, the bond will have a yield to maturity higher than the coupon rate. When the price of a tax-exempt bond increases above its par value, it is said to be selling at a premium. When the security sells below par value, it is said to be selling at a discount. previous | next.
As a bond's price increases, its yield to maturity falls. For example, if you purchased a bond with a par (face) value of $100, and a 10 percent annual coupon rate, its yield would be the coupon rate divided by the par value (10/100 = 0.10), or 10 percent.If the bond price fell to $90, the yield would become (10/90 = 0.11) or 11 percent.t's important to understand that bonds and interest rates have an inverse relationship, meaning that when interest rates go up, existing bond prices go down, and when interest rates are low, bond prices are high.