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In a daily meeting, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) gave Ari the following table of market rates
Spot exchange rate: Yen 106/$
U.S. dollar interest rate per annum 10%
Japanese Yen interest rate per annum 6%
and told Ari that the company’s financial analyst expected the Japanese Yen to
What would the spot exchange rate (Yen/$) be in 90 days?
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