In December 2017, an American investor buys 1,000 shares in a Mexican company at a price of
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In December 2017, an American investor buys 1,000 shares in a Mexican company at a price of 500 pesos each. The share does not pay any dividend. A year later she sells the shares for 550 pesos each. The exchange rates when she buys the stock are shown in Table 27.1. Suppose that the exchange rate at the time of sale is 20 pesos = $1.
a. How many dollars does she invest?
b. What is her total return in pesos? In dollars?
c. Do you think that she has made an exchange rate profit or loss? Explain.
Table 27.1
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...
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Principles of Corporate Finance
ISBN: 978-1260013900
13th edition
Authors: Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Franklin Allen
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