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FINC6013 Workshop 1 Questions

Chapter 2 problems

1. Mississippi Mud Pies, Inc. needs to buy 1,000,000 Swiss francs (CHF) to pay its Swiss chocolate supplier. Its banker quotes bid–ask rates of CHF1.3990–1.4000/USD. What will be the dollar cost of the CHF1,000,000?

2. If the Japanese yen–U.S. dollar exchange rate is ¥104.30/$, and it takes 25.15 Thai bahts to purchase 1 dollar, what is the yen price of the baht?

3. As a foreign exchange trader, you see the following quotes for Canadian dollars (CAD), U.S. dollars (USD), and Mexican pesos (MXN):

USD0.7047/CAD MXN6.4390/CAD MXN8.7535/USD

Is there an arbitrage opportunity, and if so, how would you exploit it?

4. The Mexican peso has weakened considerably relative to the dollar, and you are trying to decide whether this is a good time to invest in Mexico. Suppose the current exchange rate of the Mexican peso relative to the U.S. dollar is MXN9.5/USD. Your investment advisor at Goldman Sachs argues that the peso will lose 15% of its value relative to the dollar over the next year. What is Goldman Sachs’s forecast of the exchange rate in 1 year?

5. Deutsche Bank quotes bid–ask rates of $1.3005/€ - $1.3007/€ and ¥104.30 - 104.40/$. What would be Deutsche Bank’s direct asking price of yen per euro?

6. Alumina Limited of Australia has called Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group to get its opinion about the Japanese yen–Australian dollar exchange rate. The current rate is ¥67.72/A$, and Mitsubishi thinks the Australian dollar will weaken by 5% over the next year. What is Mitsubishi UFJ’s forecast of the future exchange rate?