A US FI Is Raising All of Its $20 Million Liabilities

question 1

Multiple Choice

A U.S. FI is raising all of its $20 million liabilities in dollars (one-year CDs) but investing 50 percent in U.S. dollar assets (one-year maturity loans) and 50 percent in U.K. pound sterling assets (one-year maturity loans) . Suppose the promised one-year U.S. CD rate is 9 percent, to be paid in dollars at the end of the year, and that one-year, credit risk-free loans in the United States are yielding only 10 percent. Credit risk-free one-year loans are yielding 16 percent in the United Kingdom.
-If the exchange rate had fallen from $1.60/≤1 at the beginning of the year to $1.50/≤1 at the end of the year, the net interest margin for the FI on its balance sheet investments is

• A)3.2875%.
• B)-3.2875%.
• C)4%.
• D)8.75%.
• E)0.375%.

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