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- Suppose you work as a broker in an investment company, and there is an expectation that the market interest rate will be 0.029. based on this expectation you are required to calculate the market price for the following CD;Issue date: 1 January 2021 Maturity date:10 May 2021. The face value OMR 10000. Interest on CD: 5 percent. Select one: a. 15942.02 b. 15574.10 c. 15677.97 d. All the given choices are not correct e. 15572.50A trader purchased an at the money 1 year OTC put option on the DAX index for a cost of Eur 10000. What is the traders minimum potential credit Exposure to the counter part over the term of the trade(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 you purchase the t bill maturing on November 18 2023 for $9993.793. The T bill matures 133 days aftef the settlment date july 9 2023 and has a face value of $10000. What is the T bill asked discount yield?An investor has agreed to LEND $10 million for 3-months in the future at a rate of (SOFR + 1%). What position should the investor take in the SOFR Futures contract to hedge against interest-rate changes? Answer in terms of LONG or SHORT position and provide a brief rationale in the response box belowOn November 29, 2019 you bought one July 2020 maturity corn futures contract at a futures price of $3.90 per bushel. If the price of the corn in the market in July 2020 (on the maturity date) is $3.78, what is your profit/loss? The contract multiplier is 5000 bushel.
- You submit a noncompetitive bid in Dec. 2020 to purchase a 28-day RM1,000 Treasury bill, and you find that you are buying the bond for RM999.88722. What are the: a) discount rate % b) investment rate %?A STRIPS traded on April 30, 2020, matures in 18 years on May 1, 2038. Assuming a yield to maturity of 6 percent, what is the STRIPS price? Do not provide handwritten solution. Maintain accuracy and quality in your answer. Take care of plagiarism.Suppose you buy a 100-strike call at a premium of $19.46, sell a 120-strikecall at a premium of $11.26, sell a 100-strike put at a premium of $5.45,and buy a 120-strike put at a premium of $15.68. Assume effective annualrisk-free interest rate of 8.5% and the expiration date of the options is oneyear.(a) Verify that there is no price risk in this transaction.(b) What is the initial cost of the position?(c) What is the value of the position at expiration?
- Today is the 10th January 2023. You want to buy a Floating Rate Note (FRN) that matures on the 10th July 2027 and pays an annual coupon equal to LIBOR. Compute the fair price of the note. Use the data in Table 1. The LIBOR rate at selected dates are showed in Table 3. Please show your calculations. Discuss your result.A speculator enters a futures contract for September delivery (September 19) of £62,500 on February 2. The futures exchange rate is $1.650 per pound. He believes that the spot rate for pounds on September 19 will be $1.700 per pound. The margin requirement is 2 percent. (a) If his expectations are correct, what would be his rate of return on the investment? (b) If the spot rate for pounds on September 19 is 5 percent lower than the futures exchange rate, how much would he lose on the futures speculation? (c) If there is a 65 percent chance that the spot rate for pounds will increase to $1.700 by September 19, would you speculate in the futures market?A company is planning to sell its 90-day commercial paper to investors by offering an 8.4 percentyield. If the face value of a three-month Treasury bill is GHS1000 which is also selling at GHS950,the credit risk premium is estimated to be 0.6 percent, and there is a 0.4 percent tax adjustment,then what is the liquidity premium on the commercial pape