Today you enter into a one-year long forward contract on a non-dividend-paying stock is entered into when the stock price is $50 and the risk-free rate of interest is 5% per annum with continuous compounding.
a) What is the forward price?
B) Eight months later, the price of the stock turnsout to be $55 and the risk-free interest rate is still 5%. What is the value of the forward contract for you at this point?