Siam Cement, the Bangkok-based cement manufacturer, suffered enormous losses with the coming of the Asian of 1967 Thecompany had been pursuing a very aggressive growth strategy in the mid-1990s, taking on massive quantities of forgodenominated debt (primarily U.S. dollars). When the Thai baht (B) was devalued from its pegged rate of 325.0 july 1997 Samsinterest payments alone were over $900 million on its outstanding dollar debt (with an average interest rate of SA on usdollar debt at that time). Assuming Siam Cement took out $50 million in debt in June 1997 at 8.40% interest, and had to repayone year when the spot exchange rate had stabilized at B40.5/$, what was the foreign exchange loss incurred on the anAdd your answer9

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