global investor gathered information on currencies and interest rates in France and the United Kingdom as shown below:
Discrete risk-free rate (France) 6.00%
Discrete risk-free rate (United Kingdom) 4.00%
Spot exchange rate per British pound €1.27
Market price of a 90-day futures contract on GBP (£)
€1.28
As part of a possible arbitrage strategy:
Indicate whether the futures contract is overpriced or underpriced:
Per the IRPT, the forward price should be: | |
S1 = S0*(1+rEuro)/(1+rGBP), where, S1 = Current | |
spot Euro/GBP, S1 = The expected future spot, | |
rEuro = risk free rate in Euro and rGBP = risk free | |
rate in GBP. | |
Substituting values, the S1 = 1.27*1.015/1.01 = | € 1.2763 |
The futures contract is overpriced as, its value is | |
more than the theoretical value given by the IRPT. |
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