Suppose that a risk-free investment will make three future payments of $100 in one year, $100 in two years, and $100 in three years. If the Federal Reserve has set the risk-free interest rate at 8 percent, what is the proper current price of this investment? What if the Federal Reserve raises the risk-free interest rate to 10 percent?

This question will compare two different arbitrage situations. Recall that arbitrage should equalize rates of return. We want to explore what this implies about equalizing prices. In the first situation, two assets, A and B, will each make a single guaranteed payment of $100 in 1 year. But asset A has a current price of $80 while asset B has a current price of $90.a. Which asset has the higher expected rate of return at current prices? Given their rates of return, which asset should investors be buying and which asset should they be selling?b. Assume that arbitrage continues until A and B have the same expected rate of return. When arbitrage ceases, will A and B have the same price?Next, consider another pair of assets, C and D. Asset C will make a single payment of $150 in one year while D will make a single payment of $200 in one year. Assume that the current price of C is $120 and that the current price of D is $180.c. Which asset has the higher expected rate of return at current…

Suppose that a 10-year T-note is purchased with a face value of $20,000 and a coupon rate of 3.4% (a) What is the total return of this investment? (b) What is the average rate of retum? (a) The total return is $ (Simplity your answer.) (b) The average rate of return is%. (Simplify your answer. Round to two decimal places as needed.)

An investment offers a total return of 17 percent over the coming year. Janice Yellen thinks the total real return on this investment will be only 13 percent. What does Janice believe the inflation rate will be over the next year?

An investment will pay $50 at the end of each of the next 3 years, $250 at the end of Year 4, $400 at the end of Year 5, and $500 at the end of Year 6. If other investments of equal risk earn 4% annually, what is its present value? Its future value? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest cent. ANSWER IN TYPING

Find the present worth sum of money that would be equivalent to the future amounts of $5000 in year 6 and $7000 in year 8 if the real interest rate is 10% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year. Solve using the factors and their equations with (a) an inflation-adjusted rate, and (b) the real interest rate. Solve manually please

According to the concepts underlying the present-value formula, would you prefer to receive (a) P75 one year from now, (b) P85 two years from now, or (c) P90 three years from now, if the relevant market interest rate is 10% and will remain at 10% for the next three years?    a. The present values of all three choices are identical b. P75 one year from now c. P85 two years from now d. P90 three years from now

8. Consider countries X and Y with risk-free rates of 8 and 10 percent, respectively. The future price (Currency X/ Currency Y) for a contract deliverable in 3 months is the same as the current exchange rate. Is there any arbitrage opportunity? If there is, design a strategy to exploit the arbitrage

Let the current asset price be 100 dollars and atter time T, the price either goes up to 110 dollars or down to 91 dollars. Suppose the risk-free interest rare is 0.1. Assume a risk-neutral world setting. Calculate the probability of up movement for T = 0.5 years.

What would you pay for an investment that pays you $34000 at the beginning of each year for the next ten years? Assume that the relevant interest rate for this type of investment is 11%.     $211024. $222260. $200231. $234235.