What is the six-month forward price for a stock providing no income. The stock price is 40 and the continuously compounded interest rate is 1.5%? What is the forward price if the stock pays a 1%, 1.5%, 2% continuously com pounded dividend yield? What is the difference between a forward contract and a futures contract? Make futures margin table similar to the class handout using oil futures prices spreadsheet Oil_CLZ17.xls on courseworks. Suppose that initial margin is 2,750 USD and a maintenance margin 2,500 USD per contract. You sell short 2 contracts at the close on March 16, 2016 and buy back at the close on September 6, 2017.Oil futures point value is 1000$. When are the margin calls? Consider following futures symbols on Bloomberg. ESZ7 Index, NQZ7 Index, TYZ7 Comdty, CLZ7 Comdty, NGZ7 Comdty, GCZ7 Comdty, SIZ7 Comdty, S X7 Comdty, C Z7 Comdty. Print the futures curves for these markets, for example: ESZ7 Index CCRV. Get descriptions of each future: ESZ7 Index DES. Submit printouts. Write down what of the futures markets are in contango, what are in backwardation and what are mixed. What markets show seasonality