Given the following information for a stock, forward contract and interest rates:• Current bid price per share of the stock: $120• Current ask price per share of the stock: $121• Annual continuously compounded dividend rate for the stock: 3%• Annual continuously compounded interest rate for borrowing: 2%• Annual continuously compounded interest rate for lending: 1.5%• Fee for each stock transaction: $1.5• Fee for each forward contract transaction: $1.5Calculate the lower bound for 2-year forward price per share of the stock, below which a profitablearbitrage can be obtained (keep 2 decimal places in your answer).

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