James Clark is a currency trader with Wachovia. He notices the following quotes:

Spot exchange rate

Six$-$month forward exchange rate

Six$-$month Dollar interest rate

Six$-$month Swiss franc interest rate

SFr$1.2052$ per $

SFr$1.1923$ per $

$2\mathrm{.}5\%$ per year

$2\mathrm{.}0\%$ per year

Required:

a$.$ Is the interest rate parity holding? You may ignore transaction costs.

b$.$ What steps should be taken to make arbitrage profit? Assuming that James Clark is authorized to work with $$1,000,000.$ Compute

the arbitrage profit.

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What steps should be taken to make arbitrage profit? Assuming that James Clark is authorized to work with $$1,000,000.$ Compute

the arbitrage profit.

Note: Round off the final answer to nearest whole dollar.

What steps should be taken to make arbitrage profit?

Arbitrage profit