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An investor opens a long futures position in 3 contracts for palladium at a delivery price of $2,022 per oz. The size of one futures contract is 100 units. At the end of the first day of trading, the delivery price of the contract settled at $1,985. On the second day, the delivery price settled at $2,012. On the third day, the price settled at $1,987. What is the total gain/loss in their margin account over the three days (Assuming a margin call cannot be triggered)?

The annualized, continuously compounded risk-free rates for U.S. dollars (USD) and French euros (EUR) are 6.50 percent and 3.75 percent, respectively. The spot price of an EUR in USD is 1.05 USD per EUR. If the five-year forward price is 1.22 USD per EUR and required delivery of 1,000,000 EUR, what arbitrage profits (in USD) can we immediately earn? (Enter your answer as a number of USD, rounded to the nearest 0.01 USD)  

The spot price of natural gas is $4.08 per MMBtu, which costs $0.04 per MMBtu to store per month (payable at the start of the month). The risk-free rate has a flat term structure with a rate of 4.90 percent per year for all maturities. What is the highest possible arbitrage-free price for a two-month contract?

A derivative trader can replicate the risks and payoffs of a long futures or forward position by:

The annualized, continuously compounded risk-free rates for U.S. dollars (USD) and French euros (EUR) are 5.25 percent and 3.00 percent, respectively. The spot price of an EUR in USD is 1.15 USD per EUR. If the five-year forward price is 1.33 USD per EUR and required delivery of 1,000,000 EUR, what arbitrage profits (in USD) can we immediately earn? (Enter your answer as a number of USD, rounded to the nearest 0.01 USD)  

A derivative trader can replicate the risks and payoffs of a short futures or forward position by:

A nurse is providing care to a patient who is receiving a blood transfusion and becomes acutely short of breath and anxious within a few minutes of the nurse’s initiating the transfusion. Which of the following actions should be included in the nurse’s care? Select the 4 correct answers.

The nurse begins infusing 1000 mL of lactated ringer’s solution to be started at 0600am. The fluids are set to infuse at 100 mL/hr. What is the completion time of the IV? Record your answer in military time. ________

The nurse is preparing to hang a unit of blood on a patient. The unit contains 235 mL and the order is to infuse the blood over 4 hours. The drop factor is 15 gtts/mL. Calculate the flow rate in gtts/min for this infusion. (Round to the nearest whole number) ______________________

Which of the following would be priority of the nurse to assess when administering amlodipine?