Suppose You Have Entered into the Forward Contract from the Previous

question 8

Short Answer

Suppose you have entered into the Forward Contract from the previous ex- ercise, what is the value of the contract 6-months after initiation? Assume that the discount factors are now the ones presented at the beginning of this section.

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