DVR, Inc. can borrow dollars for five years at a coupon rate of 2.75 percent. Alternatively, it

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DVR, Inc. can borrow dollars for five years at a coupon rate of 2.75 percent. Alternatively, it can borrow yen for five years at a rate of .85 percent. The five-year yen swap rates are 0.64-0.70 percent and the dollar swap rates are 2.41-2.44 percent. The currency ¥/$ exchange rate is 87.575. Determine the dollar AIC and the dollar cash flow that DVR would have to pay under a currency swap where it borrows ¥1,750,000,000 and swaps the debt service into dollars. This problem can be solved using the Excel spreadsheet CURSWAP.xls.

Coupon
A coupon or coupon payment is the annual interest rate paid on a bond, expressed as a percentage of the face value and paid from issue date until maturity. Coupons are usually referred to in terms of the coupon rate (the sum of coupons paid in a... Exchange Rate
The value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another. Exchange Rate means on any day, for purposes of determining the Dollar Equivalent of any currency other than Dollars, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into Dollars...