1. You are considering a car loan with a stated APR of 5.98?% based on monthly compounding. What is the effective annual rate of this? loan?
?2. (Interest rate? parity) On August 8th the? six-month risk-free rate of interest in Switzerland was 4 percent. If the spot exchange rate for dollars for Swiss francs is 0.9252 and the? six-month forward exchange rate is 0.9270, what would you expect the U.S.? six-month risk-free rate to? be?
3. Explain Standard and Poor's rating scale.