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- James Clark is a foreign exchange trader with Citibank. He notices the following quotes. (12’)Spot exchange rate SFr1.2051/$Six-month forward exchange rate SFr1.1922/$Six-month $ interest rate 2.5% per yearSix-month SFr interest rate 2.0% per yeara. Is the interest rate parity holding? You may ignore transaction costs.b. Is there an arbitrage opportunity? If yes, show what steps need to be taken to make arbitrage profit. Assuming that James Clark is authorized to work with $1,000,000, compute the arbitrage profit in dollars.?You Answered Today you observe the folowing quotes: Spot EURUSD $1.37 60 Day Forward EURUSD = $1.15 In 60 day you expec to receive 281,718 Euros. In 60 days you expect the EURUSD exchange rate to be $1.17. In 60 days the EURUSD actually is $1.21. You decided to hedge your receivables with a forward. How many USD will you receive? 232,824.79You are a currency trader specializing in the Japanese yen, and you are confident that the spot exchange rate will be *118 per dollar in six months based on your analysis. The current spot exchange rate is 123 per dollar, and the six-month forward rate is 113 per dollar. Assume that you would like to buy or sell *100,004,000. Use direct quotes in your calculations. Enter the numeric portion of your answer without the currency symbols. Required: a-1. How should you speculate in the forward market to make a profit? a-2. What is the expected dollar profit from speculation? b. What would be your speculative profit in dollar terms if the spot exchange rate turns out to be ¥117 per dollar in six months? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Req A1 Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Req A2 Req B What would be your speculative profit in dollar terms if the spot exchange rate turns out to be X117 per dollar in six months? Note: Round intermediate…
- nswered Today you observe the folowing quotes: Spot EURUSD= $1.14 60 Day Forward EURUSD = $1.04 In 60 day you expec to receive 447,014 Euros. In 60 days you expect the EURUSD exchange rate to be $1.23. In 60 days the EURUSD actually is $1.03. You decided to not hedge your receivables. How many USD will you receive? 433,994.171. Given the following data on 13th March 2007: Interest rate on 12-month German T-bills: 4% Interest rate on 12-month Japanese T-bills: 0.61% Spot exchange rate €1.00 = Yen 154.2 (a) Making clear your assumptions, compute the market's expectation of the exchange rate on 13th March 2008. (b) If on 13th March 2007 you find a bank quoting a 12-month for- ward rate of €1.00 = Yen 152.0, explain how you could profit by speculating. Show your calculations/workings.You are the financial manager for Belltower Associates, which is headquartered in Australia. You have received the below spot and interest rates quotes from your bank: Bid Ask NZD 0.8298/AUD NZD 0.8340/AUD 4.50% 5.00% 0.90% 1.30% Spot exchange rate Interest rate for AUD Interest rate for NZD Suppose that Belltower Associates has a receivable in NZD in one year's time and they wish to engage in a hedge to lock in their domestic (i.e. Australian dollar) currency equivalent of its value. Belltower Associates intends to achieve this by using their bank's spot rates and money market interest rates in order to create a synthetic forward contract. What is the effective forward exchange rate that Belltower Associates is able to achieve for hedging the AUD value of their NZD receivable? O a. NZD 0.8012/AUD O b. NZD 0.8635/AUD O c. O d. O e. NZD 0.8298/AUD NZD 0.8594/AUD NZD 0.7974/AUD NZD 0.8085/AUD
- 2. Suppose today's exchange rate is $1.23/€. The three-month interest rates on dollars and euros are 6% and 3 % (both anual rates), respectively. The three-month forward rate is $1.25. A foreign exchange advisory service has predicted that the euro will appreciate to $1.27 within three months. Consider 1 million euros. a.. How would you use forward contracts to speculate in the above situation? b. How would you use money market instruments (borrowing and lending) to speculate? C. Which alternatives (forward contracts or money market instruments) would you prefer? Why? d. Can you make profits without risks? If so, explain and calculate how you do that.You observe the following quoted money market rates: Spot exchange rate 95-day Forward exchange rate 95-day USD interest rate 95-day AUD interest rate What will your profit (in USD) be 95 days from now if you borrow USD3 million today and invest in Australia and then convert back to USD? In your calculations assume 360 days per year. a. -USD 361,605.85 b. -USD 352,934.10 -USD 272,802.68 Bid Ask AUD1.185/USD AUD1.189/USD AUD1.341/USD AUD1.349/USD 5.57% p.a. 6.38% p.a. 7.71% p.a. 8.81% p.a. O c. O d. -USD322,300.31 O e. None of the options in this question.Current exchange rate (Feb 15, 2018) is .0090 $/Yen. You speculate the exchange rate will be .0087 $/Yen on Mar 15, 2018. You plan to make money in the currency exchange market through the 'Short-selling' method. In this case, the first step is you borrow ________. Group of answer choices Yen US$
- TB SA Qu. 06-69 If you had borrowed $1,000,000.... Use the information below to answer the following question. Exchange Rate $ 1.60 €1.00 $1.58 € 1.00 So ( $/ €) F360 ($/C) Interest Rate is ic APR 28 4% If you had borrowed $1,000,000, traded them for euro at the spot rate, and invested those euros in Europe, how many euros will you receive in one year?Only typed answer and please don't use chatgpt Suppose the interest rate on 6-month treasury bills is 7 percent per year in the United Kingdom and 4 percent per year in the United States. Also, today’s spot exchange price of the pound is $2.00 while the 6month forward exchange price of the pound is $1.98. By investing in U.K. treasury bills rather than U.S. treasury bills, and covering exchange-rate risk, U.S. investors earn an approximate extra return for 6 months of: a. 0.5 percent. (this is the answer; please show how to solve) b. 1.5 percent. c. 3.0 percent. d. 4.0 percent.Use the information below to answer the following questions. Currency per U.S. $ 1.2380 1.2353 Australia dollar 6-months forward Japan Yen 6-months forward U.K. Pound 6-months forward 100.3600 100.0200 .6789 .6784 Suppose interest rate parity holds, and the current six month risk-free rate in the United States is 5 percent. Use the approximate interest rate parity equation to answer the following questions. a. What must the six-month risk-free rate be in Australia? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. What must the six-month risk-free rate be in Japan? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) a. Australian risk-free rate b. Japanese risk-free rate c. Great Britain risk-free rate c. What must the six-month risk-free rate be in Great Britain? (Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) % % %