a) If your firm has a payment of 100 million euros due one year from now, how would you hedge the FX risk in this payment with 125,000 euros futures contracts?
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- Suppose your company needs to make a payment of 50 million Swiss franc one year from now, how would you hedge the foreign exchange risk in this payment with 125,000-Swiss franc futures contracts?3. Suppose a financial asset, ABC, is the underlying asset for a futures contractwith settlement of 6 months from now. You know the following about this financial asset and futures contract in the cash market ABC is selling for $120; ABC pays $18 per year in two semiannual payments of $9, and the next semiannual payment is due exactly 6 months from now; and the current 6-month interest rate at which funds can be loaned or borrowed is 6%. a) What is the theoretical (or equilibrium ) futures price? b) Suppose that ABC pays an interest quarterly instead of semiannually, What would be the theoretical futures price for 3 months settlement? c) Suppose that the borrowing rate is 8% and the 6-month lending rate is 6%, What is the boundary for the theoretical futures price? SHOW YOUR SOLUTIONS, PLEASE DONT USE MS EXCEL1. Suppose a financial asset, ABC, is the underlying asset for a futures contract with settlement of 6 months from now. You know the following about this financial asset and futures contract in the cash market ABC is selling for $80; ABC pays $8 per year in two semiannual payments of $4, and the next semiannual payment is due exactly 6 months from now; and the current 6month interest rate at which funds can be loaned or borrowed is 6%. What action would you take if the futures price is $83? What action would you take if the futures price is $76?
- Suppose we wish to borrow $10 million for 91 days beginning next June, and that the quoted Eurodollar futures price is 93.23. What 3-month LIBOR rate is implied by this price? How much will be needed to repay the loan? Show work and discuss result.1. Suppose a financial asset, ABC, is the underlying asset for a futures contract with settlement of 6 months from now. You know the following about this financial asset and futures contract in the cash market ABC is selling for $80; ABC pays $8 per year in two semiannual payments of $4, and the next semiannual payment is due exactly 6 months from now; and the current 6month interest rate at which funds can be loaned or borrowed is 6%. d) What action would you take if the futures price is $76?Consider a firm that expects to borrow $100 million in June for a three-month period thereafter. Explain how the firm can lock in the borrowing rate today using Eurodollar (ED) futures. Suppose that the June ED futures price today is $92.8 and illustrate how hedging will work if the 3-month spot rate in June is (i) 6% per annum and (ii) 8% per annum. Can the firm perfectly hedge its interest rate risk? Explain why or why not.
- Suppose that the September 90-day Eurodollar futures contract has a price of $96.4 today. A firm expects to borrow $50 million for 3 months in September at the LIBOR, and intends to use the Eurodollar futures contract to hedge its future borrowing rate. a) What rate can the firm secure today by using the Eurodollar contract? b) Will the firm go long or short the Eurodollar contract? How many contracts will it buy/sell? c) Suppose that the spot 3-month LIBOR is 4% (annualized) in September. Explain how the firm met its objective of locking in a return on its future borrowing.A) It is now January. The current interest rate is 5% per annum annual compounding. The June future price for gold is $1846.30, while the December future rice is $1860.00. Find a strategy to explore the arbitrage opportunity. B) Suppose that the spot price of the euro is currently $1.5 USD. The one-year futures price is $1.55 USD. Is the interest rate higher in the United States or the euro zone? Justify your answer. C) OneAsx has just introduced a single-stock futures contract on Arandex stock, a company that currently pays no dividends. Each contract calls for delivery of 1,000 shares of stock in one year. The T-bill rate is 6% per year annually compounded and Arandex stock currently sells at $120 per share. If the Arandex price drops by 3%, what will be the change in the future price and the change in the investors’ margin account who has a long position in one contract?Suppose you borrow RM10,000,000 in the interbank money market at a KLIBOR yield of 6% p.a for a term of 1 month. Should you buy or sell KLIBOR futures contract if you were to hedge against interest rate risks?
- Suppose you buy a December futures contract on a hypothetical 10-year, 6% semiannualcoupon note with a settlement price today of 125-060. You post the initialmargin required for this transaction ($1,430 per $100,000 contract). What nominalannual yield to maturity is implied by the settlement price? If interest rates fall to2.4%, what return would you earn on one futures contract? If interest rates rose to3.2%, what is the return on one futures contract?What is the implied interest rate on a Treasury bond ($100,000) futures contract that settled at 100’160? If interest rates increased by 1%, what wouldbe the contract’s new value?The futures price of an asset is currently 80 and the risk-free rate is 4%. A six-month put on the futures with a strike price of 85 is currently worth 6.5. What is the value of a six-month call on the futures with a strike price of 85 if both the put and call are European? What is the range of possible values of the six-month call with a strike price of 85 if both put and call are American? Show all work and briefly discuss.