Suppose That You Are the Treasurer of IBM with an Extra

question 14

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are the treasurer of IBM with an extra U.S. $1,000,000 to invest for six months. You are considering the purchase of U.S. T-bills that yield 1.810% (that's a six month rate, not an annual rate by the way) and have a maturity of 26 weeks. The spot exchange rate is $1.00 = ¥100, and the six month forward rate is $1.00 = ¥110. What must the interest rate in Japan (on an investment of comparable risk) be before you are willing to consider investing there for six months?

• A)11.991%
• B)1.12%
• C)7.45%
• D)-7.45%

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Definitions:

Variability

A statistical measure of the dispersion of data points in a data series around the mean.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data, commonly the mean, median, or mode.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a data set differ from the mean.

Computing Mean

The process of calculating the average value of a set of numbers by adding them together and dividing by the quantity of numbers.