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Assume the following information:   You have $1,000,000 to invest: Current spot rate of pound = $1.30 90-day forward rate of pound = $1.28 3-month deposit rate in U.S. = 3% 3-month deposit rate in Great Britain = 4%   If you use covered interest arbitrage for a 90-day investment, what will be the amount of U.S. dollars you will have after 90 days?

Volusia, Inc. is a U.S.-based exporting firm that expects to receive payments denominated in both euros and Canadian dollars in one month. Based on today’s spot rates, the dollar value of the funds to be received is estimated at $300,000 for the euros and $500,000 for the Canadian dollars. Based on data for the last fifty months, Volusia estimates the standard deviation of monthly percentage changes to be 8 percent for the euro and 3 percent for the Canadian dollar. The correlation coefficient between the euro and the Canadian dollar is 0.30. What is the portfolio standard deviation?

In the past, many deaf people lived in _____ because they had no way to communicate with others.

Assume that the U.S. places a strict quota on goods imported from Japan and Japan does not retaliate.  Holding other factors constant, this event should cause the supply of U.S. dollars to be exchanged for Japanese yen to ___________ and the value of the U.S. dollar to _______.

Assume the Federal Reserve just announced a further decrease in the target Federal Funds rate.  (Please retype the below question set in your answer box and give your answers following each sub-question.)  a. Explain the rationale behind the Federal Reserve’s action.   b. Explain the impact of the noted Federal Reserve action on each of the following:      1) International Demand for the Dollar —         2) Value of the Dollar —    c. As based on the change in the value of the dollar, briefly explain how and why each of the following would change:       1) U.S. Imports —        2) U.S. Exports —        3) U.S. Inflation —        4) U.S. Economic Growth —    

A [CR]% Northwest Airlines bond with annual coupon payments and a $1,000 par value has [n] years to maturity.  If investors in this bond require a [i]% annual rate of return, what is the market value of this bond? (Note that the rate preceding the firm name is the annual coupon rate.)               (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)

Holding everything else constant, if interest rates are expected to increase, the demand for bonds ________ and the demand curve shifts ________.

The interest rate the Fed charges banks borrowing from the Fed is the

Depreciation of the euro relative to the U.S. dollar will cause a U.S.-based multinational firm’s reported earnings (from the consolidated income statement) to ____. If a firm desired to protect against this possibility, it could stabilize its reported earnings by ____ euros forward in the foreign exchange market.

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