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- Required: Suppose you are a euro-based Italian investor, and you are investing €11,200 to buy shares of a British company at £50 per share. The exchange rate is €1.40 per pound. The stock pays a £1 dividend one year later, and you sell your shares for £54. The exchange rate has changed to €1.45 per pound at the time of your sale. What is your pound rate of return on this investment and the change in pound-euro exchange rate? What is your euro rate of return? If you had agreed at the outset to sell £8,000 forward at the rate of €1.35 per pound, what is your euro rate of return on this investment? Note: Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places. Pound rate of return % _____ Change in pound-euro exchange rate % _______ Euro rate of return on €11200 inverstment % ___________ Euro rate of return on €8,000 forward sale % ________You are a CFO of an Australian company with a liability of USD 1 million due in December 2021. You have receivables of 10 million Japanese yen due in December 2021. Assuming that the forecasts given in table 1 are accurate and using the forward rates for AUD/USD and AUD/JPY, does it make sense to hedge a) your payable in USD; b) your receivable in JPY? Illustrate with data obtained from internet sources / IRESS trading room. You may use forwards/futures/options on the relevant currency pairs (if available).A European call that will expire in one year is currently trading for $3. Assume the risk-free rate (based on continuous compounding) is 5%, the underlying stock price is $60 and the strike price is $55. a. Is there an arbitrage opportunity? b. Describe exactly what a trader should do to take advantage of the arbitrage opportunity assuming it exists. c. Determine the present value of the profit that the trader can earn assuming you identify an arbitrage opportunity. Use at least four decimal places for those questions that require a numerical answer.
- A stock price is worth CHF 229 on 01.01.2022 and CHF 152 on 01.01.2023. The exchange rate between CHF and $ is 1.0575 CHF/$ and the exchange rate between CHF and british pounds (GPB) is 0.972 CHF/GPB. a) If the price growth rate was the same in 2021 as in 2022, what was the price, in CHF, on 01.01.2021? (Round your answer to 2 digits after the decimal point if needed)(a) Suppose a trader takes a position on June 5th 2021, in one September 2021 EURO (EUR) future contract at USD1.3094/EUR. The trader holds the position until the last day of trading when the spot price is USD1.2939/EUR. This will be the final settlement price because of price convergence. The trader has EUR125,000 for this investment. (i) If the trader had a long position and he was a speculator, calculate his profit or loss for the position above. (ii) If the trader had a short position and he was a speculator, calculate his profit or loss for the position above. (iii) If the trader had a long position and he was a hedger, calculate his profit or loss for the position above. (iv) If the trader had a short position and he was a hedger, calculate his profit or loss for the position above. (b) Discuss factors that you would consider in evaluating the political risk associated before making FDI in a foreign country.Suppose that the return on a U.K. treasury bill is eight percent annum and the return on a U.S. treasury bill is eight percent annum and that you had $1,000,000 earmarked for short term investment for a period of a month. In which of the securities would you place your money? (Assume you are not a speculator). Show your calculations. 1 British pound (spot) $1.7748 1 British pound (30-day futures) $1.7776
- Assume that you are running an Australia based company which has an account payable of EUR 125,000 due in three months. You decide to hedge out the associated foreign exchange risk using futures contracts. A futures contract of EUR125,000 is selling at A$1.5410 per euro. Suppose the next three days’ settlement prices are A$1.5399, A$1.5480, and A$1.5410. The initial margin of your performance bond account is $2,000 and maintenance margin is $1,500. What is your margin account balance at the end of the first day and what is the balance of this account at the end of the third day?Suppose you are the treasurer of a U.S. multinational firm that wants to hedge the foreign exchange risk associated with your firm's sale of equipment to a Swiss firm worth CHF1,000,000. The receivable is due in six months. You want to ensure that Swiss francs are worth at least $0.70 when the francs are received so you want a strike price of $0.70. How many options contracts do you need to hedge this risk? Do you want a call or put on Swiss francs? When will you exercise the options? When will you let the options expire?Suppose a U.S. investor wishes to invest in a British firm currently selling for 50 pounds per share by buying 200 shares of the British firm. The current exchange rate is $1.31 per pound. After one year, the exchange rate is $1.60 per pound and the share price is 59 pounds per share. What is the dollar-denominated return in percentage?
