June 2019 Mexican peso futures contract has a price of $0.05194 per MXN. You believe the spot price in June will be 0.05829 per MXN. a. What speculative position would you enter into to attempt to profit from your beliefs? O Short position Long Position b. Calculate your anticipated profits, assuming you take a position in three contracts. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) Anticipated profit c. What is the size of your profit (loss) if the futures price is indeed an unbiased predictor of the future spot price and this price materializes? (A Negative value should be indicated with a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) Profit or loss

Look at the futures listings for the corn contract in Table 2.7 Suppose you buy one contract for March 2020 delivery. If the contract closes in March at a level of 4.27, what will your profit be? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Profit

Suppose you sell six September 2020 palladium futures contracts this day at the last price of the day. Use Table 23.1. a. What will your profit or loss be if palladium prices turn out to be $2,034.50 per ounce at expiration? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a positive value rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. What will your profit or loss be if palladium prices are $1,977.50 per ounce at expiration? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a positive value rounded to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.) a. Loss b. Profit Answer is not complete. 6,200

Table 2.7 Corn futures prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, January 3, 2019 Maturity Last Mar-19 May-19 Jul-19 Sep-19 Dec-19 Mar-20 Change High 3.8025 0.7500 3.8075 3.7975 3.8800 0.5000 3.8800 3.8750 3.9500 0.2500 3.9525 3.9450 3.9700 0.0000 3.9700 3.9650 4.0075 -0.5000 4.0100 4.0025 4.0975 0.0000 4.1000 4.0950 Low Source: www.cmegroup.com.

Look at the futures listings for the corn contract in Table 2.7.Suppose you buy one contract for September 2019 delivery. If the contract closes in September at a level of 4.36, what will your profit be? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Suppose the September Eurodollar futures contract has a price of 96.4. You plan to borrow $50m for 3 months in September at LIBOR, and you intend to use the Eurodollar contract to hedge your borrowing rate. a. What rate can you secure? b. Will you be long or short the Eurodollar contract? c. How many contracts will you enter into? d. Assuming the true 3-month LIBOR is 1% in September, what is the settlement in dollars at expiration of the futures contract? (For purposes of this question, ignore daily marking-to-market on the futures contract.)

You take a short position in 3 futures contracts on WIG20 on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The current contract price is 2023. The maintenance margin is 6,5% of the contract value and the initial margin is 15% higher than the maintenance margin. What amount do you need to deposit in the margin account when you take the position? Remember the correct multiplier for these contracts on the WSE. a) 3024.38 PLN. b) 453.66 PLN. c) 4536.58 PLN. d) 9073.15 PLN.

Suppose you buy a December futures contract on a hypothetical 10-year, 6% semiannualcoupon note with a settlement price today of 125-060. You post the initialmargin required for this transaction ($1,430 per $100,000 contract). What nominalannual yield to maturity is implied by the settlement price? If interest rates fall to2.4%, what return would you earn on one futures contract? If interest rates rose to3.2%, what is the return on one futures contract?

Refer to the Mini-S&P contract in Figure 22.1. Assume the closing price for this day.a. If the margin requirement is 23% of the futures price times the contract multiplier of $50, how much must you deposit with your broker to trade the March maturity contract? (Round your answer to the nearest whole dollar.)Required margin depositb. If the March futures price increases to 2594.70, what percentage return will you earn on your investment if you entered the long side of the contract at the price shown in the figure? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)Percentage return on net investment%c. If the March futures price falls by 1%, what is your percentage return? (Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)Percentage return on net investment%

Futures Contracts | WSJ.com/commodities Metal & Petroleum Futures Contract Open High hi lo low Copper-High (CMX)-25,000 lbs.; $ per lb. Contract Open Open High hi lo low Settle Chg interest Open Coffee (ICE-US)-37,500 lbs.; cents per lb. Settle Chg interest Dec 194.00 205.55 192.95 204.05 10.05 129,6% March 22 196.95 208.35 195.80 206.90 10.10 70,796 Sugar-World (ICE-US)-112,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Oct 4.1500 4.2030 4.1500 Dec 4.1065 4.2030 4.0585 4.1885 40.1935 0.1035 0.0995 2,734 109,717 March 20.31 20.35 20.02 20.06 -.28 420,744 May 19.72 19.75 19.48 19.53 .23 156,809 Oct Gold (CMX)-100 troy oz.; $ per troy oz. 1754.30 1762.60 1748.50 Sugar-Domestic (ICE-US)-112,000 lbs.; cents per lb. 1757.00 1.70 Nov 1755.90 1764.30 1750.00 1757.70 1.40 4,163 1,093 Nov 37.00 37.01 37.00 37.00 -.05 1,265 March'22 36.00 36.01 36.00 36.00 -.10 2,819 Dec 1757.20 1765.20 1749.90 1758.40 1.40 407,321 Feb 22 1759.10 1766.40 1751.60 1760.10 1.60 46,135 Cotton (ICE-US)-50,000 lbs.; cents per lb. Oct Oct…