You are an investor currently holding 1.5 million U.S. dollars, and you are contemplating the following strategies. 1)Investing in the U.S. 5-year treasury bonds. 2)Investing in the 5-year government bonds of one of the countries listed below. Your strategy is to exchange your funds on the spot market into the foreign currency, buy the local government bond, and after the bond’s maturity, exercise a forward to change your funds back into USD. Spot and forward rates are listed below. There are no put and call rates (the spread is equal to zero). The forward, however, costs 2% of the exchanged value. Required: 1.Find the most profitable strategy. Calculate the future and present values of all 11 strategies (U.S. treasury bonds and 10 foreign government bonds). 2.Explore the concept of arbitrage on the currency exchange markets and critically evaluate how it relates to this situation.

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