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- Assume that today the euro futures contracts with a September 15th delivery date are priced at $1.3680/€ . Suppose that you sold 15 contracts of the euro futures today. If, by September 15th the spot rate is $1.3260/€ , your total profit/loss on your position is (the euro futures contract size is €125,000). $78,750 loss $78,750 gain €78,750 loss €5,250 loss None of the abovParagraph Styles 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? IConsider 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 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.Suppose the September Eurodollar futures contract has a price of 96.4. You plan to borrow $50m for 3 months in September at LIBOR, and you intend to use the Eurodollar contract to hedge your borrowing rate. a. What rate can you secure? b. Will you be long or short the Eurodollar contract? c. How many contracts will you enter into? d. Assuming the true 3-month LIBOR is 1% in September, what is the settlement in dollars at expiration of the futures contract? (For purposes of this question, ignore daily marking-to-market on the futures contract.)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) What is the difference between a “hedger” and “arbitrager?" (b)What is the difference between a “speculator” and an “arbitrager?” (c)Suppose that you observe today, June 16, 2021, that the spot price for corn is $5.74 per bushel and the January 2022 futures price is $5.95 per bushel. You expect corn will sell in January 2022 for a price of $6.50 per bushel. For you, the cost of storing corn per month is 3 cents per bushel. a. If you are a speculator, what do you do? _______________________ b. If you are an arbitrager, what do you do? _______________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.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 below
- Suppose you work as a broker in an investment company, and there is an expectation that the market interest rate will be 0.031. 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.6.Assume we have the following information: Spot price : 1146.00 Actual futures price : 1192.50 Theoretical futures price : 1160.00 Maturity : 3 months a. Is the futures fairly priced? Suppose an arbitrageur wish to take advantage of this opportunity. He has RM10,000,000.00 which he can fund at the current risk-free rate of 5%. b. What should he do? c. How many contracts should be shorted or bought? d. Assume that the arbitrageur maintains this position until contract expiry at which time futures and cash prices have converged to 1165. How much profit would he makes?Consider these futures market data for the June delivery S&P 500 contract, exactly one year from today. The S&P 500 index is at 1,950, and the June maturity contract is at F0 = 1,951.a. If the current interest rate is 2.5%, and the average dividend rate of the stocks in the index is 1.9%, what fraction of the proceeds of stock short sales would need to be available to you to earn arbitrage profits?b. Suppose now that you in fact have access to 90% of the proceeds from a short sale. What is the lower bound on the futures price that rules out arbitrage opportunities?c. By how much does the actual futures price fall below the no-arbitrage bound?d. Formulate the appropriate arbitrage strategy, and calculate the profits to that strategy.