A company wishes to use financial futures to hedge its interest rate exposure. The company will sell 10 Treasury futures contracts at $137k per contract. It is Jul and the contracts must be closed out in Dec of this year. Long-term interest rates are currently 13.28%. If they increase to 14.75%, assume the value of the contracts will go down by 7%. Also if interest rates do increase by 1.35%, assume the firm will have additional interest expense on its business loans and other commitments of $53k. This expense will be separate from the futures contracts. Note: The term k is used to represent thousands ( $1,000).

Required: In percentage terms, what is the net gain (or cost) to the firm once the increased interest expense is accounted for?