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Question 3 (2 points)
You just entered a futures contract to sell EUR 50,000 at $1.15 per EUR. Your initial
performance bond is $5,000 and your maintenance level is $1,500. At what settle price
(exchange rate) will you receive a call for additional funds to be posted (margin call)?
Question 4 (3 points)
Consider 10% USD/GBP dual-currency bonds that pay $1,500 at maturity per GBP1,000 of par
value and has 5 years till maturity. If it sells at par, what is the implicit USD/GBP (USD for one
unit of GBP) exchange rate at maturity? The notional value of the bond is GBP1,500.
Question 8 (2 points)
Given the following information, find the risk-free return.
Company's Beta
0.75
Market Return
8%
Required return by investors
7%
Question 9 (2.5 points)
A convertible bond pays interest annually at a coupon rate of 8 percent on a par value of
$1,000. The bond has 4 years maturity remaining and the discount rate on otherwise identical
non-convertible debt is 4 percent. The bond is convertible into 55 shares of common stock.
Today's closing stock price was $20. What is the approximate floor value of this bond?
Question 10 (3 points)
Given the following capital structure, what is the approximate weighted average cost of capital?
The tax rate is 30%.
Source of Financing
Book Value
Market value
Cost of financing
Bank Loan
$1,000
$1,000
12%
Bonds
$600
$500
10%
Equity
$2,000
Question 13 (2.5 points)
You live in the US. You plan to buy a car in three months in GBP. The price for the car will be
£25,000. The spot exchange rate is $1.45/£, and the three-month forward rate is $1.42/£. You
can also buy the three-month call option with an exercise price of $1.40/£ for the premium of
$0.10 per £. The three-month interest rate is 6% per annum in the United States and 3% per
annum in UK. At what future spot price will you be indifferent between the forward and option
market hedges?
Question 15 (2 points)
A Canadian supplier is offering two options to his American client to pay for an equipment:
paying 13,000 Canadian dollars now or paying 10,000 US dollars in 6 months. If the annual
interest rate for the Canadian dollar is 5% and for the US dollar is 8%, what is the "implied"
exchange rate?
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Question 17 (2.5 points)
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Suppose that you have a house in the city of Rome (Italy) that you want to sell in one year. As
an American resident, you are concerned with the dollar value of the house. You can also
assume the following possibilities. What is your exposure (b) to the exchange risk?
Economy State Probability House price (EUR) Exchange rate (USD/EUR)
Boom
60%
500,000
1.55
Bust
40%
400,000
1.60
Question 17 options:
-2,700,000.
Question 19 (2.5 points)
Star Alien (US company) sold equipment to Heavy Metal Industry (Italian company) for
1-million-euro receivable in one year. The current spot rate is $1.15/€ and the one-year forward
rate is $1.20/€. The annual interest rate is 5 percent in Italy and 8 percent in the United States.
Star Alien can also purchase a one-year put option on the euro at the strike price of $1.18 per
euro for a premium of 9 cents per Euro. What is the future dollar proceeds of this sale using the
money market hedge?
Question 19 options:
$1,182,857.
Question 20 (2 points)
In the NYSE, Ford stock closed at USD100 per share. On the same day, the exchange rate was
USD1.25/GBP. Ford stock trades as an ADR in the OTC market in the United Kingdom. Three
Ford shares are packaged into one ADR. What is the approximate no-arbitrage GBP price of
one ADR?
£240.00.
Question 22 (2 points)
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Star Alien (US company) sold equipment to Heavy Metal Industry (Italian company) for
1-million-euro receivable in one year. The current spot rate is $1.15/€ and the one-year forward
rate is $1.20/€. The annual interest rate is 5 percent in Italy and 8 percent in the United States.
Star Alien can also purchase a one-year put option on the euro at the strike price of $1.18 per
euro for a premium of 9 cents per Euro. Assuming that the forward exchange rate is the best
predictor of the future spot rate, what is the expected future dollar revenue when the option
hedge is used?
$1,297,200.
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