NO.PZ2023020101000017
问题如下:
Whitney meets with Grand Manufacturing.
This client is based in Hong Kong but requires a €25,000,000 one-year bridge
loan to fund operations in Germany. Grand Manufacturing is currently able to
borrow euros at an interest rate of 3.75% but wonders if there is a less
expensive alternative. Whitney advises Grand to borrow in HK$ and enter into a
one-year foreign currency swap with quarterly payments to receive euros at a
fixed rate and pay HK$ at a fixed rate. The current exchange rate is HK$11.42
per €1, and the notional amounts will be exchanged at initiation and at
maturity.
Exhibit
1 Current Term Structure of Rates (%)
Note: Libor is the
London Interbank Offered Rate. Euribor is the Euro Interbank Offered Rate.
Hibor is the Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate. All rates shown are annualized.
Based on the
information in Exhibit 1 and using a 30/360 day count, the annualized fixed
rates on the currency swap suggested by Whitney for Grand for euros and Hong
Kong dollars, respectively, will be closest to:
选项:
A.2.34%
and 1.87%.
2.13%
and 1.58%.
C.
2.32%
and 1.85%.
解释:
C is correct. The appropriate PV factors
for Euribor and Hibor are calculated from Exhibit 1.
The annualized rate is simply (360/90)
times the 90-day rates or 2.3181% for Euros and 1.8550% for HK$.
我算的B90=1/(1+1.86%)^0.25=0.995403