Chapter 1, Problem 11QA

Suppose that Cloudastries Bank is a U.S.-based financial intermediary that serves the foreign exchange market. Assume that this bank is willing to both purchase and sell currency for the same rate. In other words, assume there is no bid/ask spread. Suppose Cloudastries has made the following direct quotations: Currency Dollar Spot Rate $0.55 $1.65 Mexican Peso Euro Additionally, Cloudastries has quoted a cross exchange rate of 1 euro = 3.01 pesos. After exchanging euros for pesos, the last step in triangular arbitrage is to exchange those pesos for dollars. If you exchange your 36,484.84 for dollars from Cloudastries, you would receive This represents a profit of

Exchange Rate Effects on Borrowing Explain how the appreciation of the Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar would affect the return to a U.S. firm that borrowed Japanese yen and used the proceeds for a U.S. project.

Suppose that Cloudastries Bank is a U.S.-based financial intermediary that serves the foreign exchange market. Assume that this bank is willing to both purchase and sell currency for the same rate. In other words, assume there is no bid/ask spread. Suppose Cloudastries has made the following direct quotations: Currency Mexican Peso Euro Dollar Spot Rate $0.40 $1.60 Additionally, Cloudastries has quoted a cross exchange rate of 1 euro = 4.01 pes After exchanging dollars for euros, the next step in triangular arbitrage is to excl If you use all 6,250.00 to purchase pesos from Cloudastries, you would receive 40,106.42 64,160.00 100,250.00 25,062.50 ros for pesos. pesos.