Question: Last day you picked up the Wall Street Journal & saw the following spot currency quotes:
In U.S. $ per U.S. $
Japan (Yen) .010124 98.775
U.K. (Pound) 1.4036 _____
Required:
[A] Fill in the missing number [Show you’re all calculations!).
[B] Calculate appropriate spot cross rate between the yen (¥ or JPY) & the pound (£ or GBP)?
[C] The Piggy Bank is currently quoting a spot rate of 140 yen per pound. Demonstrate how a British banker could use geographic arbitrage to profit from bank’s quote. Also find arbitrage profit per British Pound?