1. Review an annual report of an MNC of your choice. Many MNCs provide their annual reports on their websites. Look for any comments that relate to the MNCs economic or translation exposure. Does it appear that the MNC hedges its economic exposure or translation exposure? If so, what methods does it use to hedge its exposure?

2. Go to finance.yahoo.com and enter the ticker symbol IBM (or use a different MNC if you wish) in the stock quotations box. Then scroll down and click on Historical Data. Set the date range so that you can access data for least the last 20 quarters. Obtain the stock price of IBM at the beginning of the last 20 quar- ters and enter the data on your spreadsheet. Compute the percentage change in the stock price of IBM from one quarter to the next. Then go to www.x-rates.com, click on Historic Lookup, and obtain direct exchange rates of the Canadian dollar and the euro that match up with the stock price data. Run a regression analysis with the quarterly percentage change in IBMs stock price as the dependent variable and the quarterly change in the Canadian dollars value as the indepen- dent variable. (Appendix C explains how you can use Excel to apply regression analysis.) Does it appear that IBMs stock price is affected by changes in the value of the Canadian dollar? If so, what is the direction of the relationship? Is the relationship strong? (Check the R-squared statistic.) Based on this relationship, do you think IBM should attempt to hedge its economic expo- sure to movements in the Canadian dollar?

3. Repeat the process, but using the euro instead of the Canadian dollar. Does it appear that IBMs stock price is affected by changes in the value of the euro? If so, what is the direction of the relationship? Is the relationship strong? (Check the R-squared statistic.) Based on this relationship, do you think IBM should attempt to hedge its economic exposure to movements in the euro?