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Suppose today two-year US treasury bill is 2.15% and thetwo-year UK treasury bill is 1.0%. Further suppose today spotexchange rate is USD 1.25 per Euro and you know you will receiveone million euro exactly two years from now and you will have toexchange those Euros in USD at that time. Can you engineer aguaranteed exchange rate at which you will be able to exchange theEuros for USD two years from now? Explain the arrangements.

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In order to guarantee an exchange rate after two years one needs to implement a moneymarket hedge which can be executed as described below EUR Receivable 1000000 EUR EUR Interest Rate 1 and    See Answer
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Suppose today two-year US treasury bill is 2.15% and thetwo-year UK treasury bill is 1.0%. Further suppose today spotexchange rate is USD 1.25 per Euro and you know you will receiveone million euro exactly two years from now and you will have toexchange those Euros in USD at that time. Can you engineer aguaranteed exchange rate at which you will be able to exchange theEuros for USD two years from now? Explain the arrangements.

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