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Company X Wants to Borrow $10,000,000 Floating for 5 Years;

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Company X wants to borrow $10,000,000 floating for 5 years; company Y wants to borrow $10,000,000 fixed for 5 years.Their external borrowing opportunities are shown below.
 Fixed-Rate Borrowirg  Floating-Rate BorTownre  Cost  Cost  Compary X 10% LIBOR  Compary Y 12% LIBOR +1.5%\begin{array} { c c c } & \text { Fixed-Rate Borrowirg } & \text { Floating-Rate BorTownre } \\&\text { Cost } & \text { Cost } \\\text { Compary X } & 10 \% & \text { LIBOR } \\\text { Compary Y } & 12 \% & \text { LIBOR } + 1.5 \%\end{array} A swap bank is involved and quotes the following rates five-year dollar interest rate swaps at 10.05 percent -10.45 percent against LIBOR flat.
Assume company Y has agreed,but company X will only agree to the swap if the bank offers better terms.
What are the absolute best terms the bank can offer X,given that it already booked Y?  Company X wants to borrow $10,000,000 floating for 5 years; company Y wants to borrow $10,000,000 fixed for 5 years.Their external borrowing opportunities are shown below.   \begin{array} { c c c }  & \text { Fixed-Rate Borrowirg } & \text { Floating-Rate BorTownre } \\ &\text { Cost } & \text {  Cost } \\ \text { Compary X } & 10 \% & \text { LIBOR } \\ \text { Compary Y } & 12 \% & \text { LIBOR } + 1.5 \% \end{array}  A swap bank is involved and quotes the following rates five-year dollar interest rate swaps at 10.05 percent -10.45 percent against LIBOR flat. Assume company Y has agreed,but company X will only agree to the swap if the bank offers better terms. What are the absolute best terms the bank can offer X,given that it already booked Y?   A) 10.45% ?10.45% against LIBOR flat. B) 10.45%?10.05% against LIBOR flat. C) 10.50%?10.50% against LIBOR flat. D) none of the options


A) 10.45% ?10.45% against LIBOR flat.
B) 10.45%?10.05% against LIBOR flat.
C) 10.50%?10.50% against LIBOR flat.
D) none of the options

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