Multiple Choice
Exhibit 21.3
Use the Information Below for the Following Problem(S)
As a relationship officer for a money-center commercial bank, one of your corporate accounts has just approached you about a one-year loan for $3,000,000. The customer would pay a quarterly interest expense based on the prevailing level of LIBOR at the beginning of each quarter. As is the bank's convention on all such loans, the amount of the interest payment would then be paid at the end of the quarterly cycle when the new rate for the next cycle is determined. You observe the following LIBOR yield curve in the cash market:
-Refer to Exhibit 21.3.Assuming the yields inferred from the Eurodollar futures contract prices for the next three settlement periods are equal to the implied forward rates,calculate in annual (360-day) percentage terms,the annuity that would leave the bank indifferent between making the floating-rate loan and hedging it in the futures market,and making a one-year fixed-rate loan.
A) 20.86%
B) 5.10%
C) 4.91%
D) 5.20%
E) None of the above
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