Exhibit 21 -Refer to Exhibit 21

question 87

Multiple Choice

Exhibit 21.3
Use the Information Below for the Following Problem(S)
As a relationship officer for a money-center commercial bank, one of your corporate accounts has just approached you about a one-year loan for $3,000,000. The customer would pay a quarterly interest expense based on the prevailing level of LIBOR at the beginning of each quarter. As is the bank's convention on all such loans, the amount of the interest payment would then be paid at the end of the quarterly cycle when the new rate for the next cycle is determined. You observe the following LIBOR yield curve in the cash market:
$\begin{array}{ll}90 \text {-day LIBOR } & 4.70 \% \\180 \text {-day LIBOR } & 4.85 \% \\\text { 270-day LIBOR } & 5.10 \% \\\text { 360-day LIBOR } & 5.40 \%\end{array}$
-Refer to Exhibit 21.3.What is the implied 90-day forward rate at the beginning of the fourth quarter?

• A) 6.19%
• B) 5.10%
• C) 6.07%
• D) 5.68%
• E) None of the above

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Definitions:

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true; often denoted by alpha.

Effect Size

A quantifiable measure of the magnitude of the difference between groups or the strength of a relationship in research findings.

Cohen

A surname often associated with statistical measures of effect size, such as Cohen's d for measuring the difference between two means.

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the magnitude of the experimental effect, indicating the practical significance of the difference between groups.