1. How can a bank hedge when it makes 1-year fixed-rate loans and finances them with 3-month floating-rate deposits?
Buy Eurodollar futures contracts
Sell put options on Eurodollar futures contracts
Sell Eurodollar future contracts
Buy call options on Eurodollar future contracts
2. A&M Hardware assumes new customers will default 8 percent of the time but if they don’t default, they will become repeat customers who always pay their bills. Assume the average sale is $383 with a variable cost of $260, and a monthly required return of 1.65 percent. What is the NPV of extending credit for one month to a new customer?
$6,103.47
$6,858.18
$6,598.18
$5,748.09
$5,589.09