Casper Landsten-CIA (A). Casper Landsten is a foreign exchange trader for a bank in New York. He has

$0.95

million (or its Swiss franc equivalent) for a short term money market investment and wonders if he should invest in U.S. dollars for three months, or make a CIA investment in the Swiss franc. He faces the following quotes:

Arbitrage funds available	$	950,000
Spot exchange rate (SFr/$)		1.2811
3-month forward rate (SFr/$)		1.2741
U.S. Dollar annual interest rate		4.803	%
Swiss franc annual interest rate		3.202	%

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Part 1

The CIA profit potential is

enter your response here%,

which tells Casper Landsten he should borrow

Swiss francs

U.S. dollars

and invest in the

higher

lower

yielding currency, the

Swiss franc

U.S. dollar

, in order to earn covered interest arbitrage (CIA) profits.(Round to three decimal places and select from the drop-down menus.)