A 3yr bond, annual coupon 3.5%, yield 3.8%, last coupon payment just made. Calculate its price and current yield?
Losses/gains on a futures contract
You are long one CME Dec sterling future of contract size £62.500. Mon closing of the future was 1.8212 USD/GBP. On Tues, the price rose to 1.8289; on Wed the price changed to 1.8275. Calculate your profit/loss in USD on Tue and Wed.
. You are based in Canada. A 1yr call option to buy USD at strike1.3500 CAD/USD has premium of .0595CAD. Spot CAD/USD is 1.3535. a) What is the moneyness of the call? What is its intrinsic value and time value? b) Everything being equal, if the option has a life of 6M, is the call option going to cost more or le ...continues
You are based in Switzerland. You own two call options both maturing in one year: call option to buy USD at strike 1.2200 CHF/USD and call option to buy EUR at strike 1.5200 CHF/EUR. Spot CHF/USD is 1.2255 and spot CHF/EUR is 1.5255. Which of the option costs more?
You are a fixed income fund manager based in UK. A Hungarian government bond paying annual 8.5% coupon with one year remaining life is trading at 99.55. Spot rate of HUF/GBP is 350.72, one year forward HUF/GBP is 356.35. Calculate the fully hedged return if you invest in this bond.
You are a fixed income fund manager based in euroland. Expected return of the EUR bond market is 4.4% and risk 5%, expected hedged return of the UK bond market 5.5% and risk 5.5%. Correlation of the two markets is 0.7. Demonstrate the benefits of international diversification by investing 70% of your portfolio in EUR bonds, 30% ...continues
As a seller of information to customers in Brazil, you are an exporter and you periodically purchase advertising space on Brazilian Web sites to advertise your service; therefore are an importer of a service. If you could not afford to pay for the advertising space in advance, you might finance your purchases of Brazilian advert ...continues
As the VP of International Sales, you are responsible not only for sales but also for sales strategy. Prepare a preliminary report to the CEO identifying which three countries you think would most likely be interested in Our Company's mobility product and state why you think these would be good target countries. Describe the opp ...continues
International Monetary Relations
I was asked: suppose that the interest rate in Irish banks is 5% for a one year CD. In the USA, the rate is 2% for a one year CD. If you left your winnings in Ireland, how many Euros would you have in a year? If you had taken your winnings back to the USA, how many dollars would you have? Also, when you cashed in your CD in ...continues
Multinational companies foreign operations and pricing
IBM in terms of currency denomination, how does the firm prices its revenues and costs. Also, I am not clear on this, for MNE's with multiple foreign operations, consider any one of those operations and the contribution it is making to the parent firm's profits. What do you think would be the effect of increases/decreases in the ...continues
