A firm has to pay 6 million euros forsupplies it recently received from Germany. Today, the euro hasappreciated by 3 percent against the U.S. dollar. The firm hasdetermined that whenever the euro appreciates against theU.S. dollar by more than 1 percent, it experiences a reversal of 40percent on the following day. Based on this information, how theeuro is expected to tomorrow, and when the firm would prefer tomake payment? Please show all your calculations.

 

A U.S. investor is considering a portfolio consisting of 60%invested in the U.S. equity index fund and 40% invested in theBritish equity index fund. The expected returns for the funds are10% for the U.S. and 8% for the British, standard deviations of 20%for the U.S. and 18% for the British, and a correlation coefficientof 0.15 between the U.S. and British equity funds.

What is the expected return of the proposed portfolio?

       

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