If there are no market imperfections was there an arbitrage


On September 30, 2007, the following were the prices for the Euro FX Contract

Months             3                 6                     9                12          18

          Cash    Dec. 07     March 08      June 08     Sep. 08   Dec. 08

    €/$ TBD      1.4293       1.4303           1.4308      1.4311   1.4311

The 3-month U.S. Treasury offered a yield of 3.64% and the 6-month offered 3.91%. The price of USD to EUR was 0.7006€. The yield on the 3-month German federal security was 3.88%.

1. What was the spot rate?

2. If there are no market imperfections, was there an arbitrage opportunity here? If so, how would you have exploited it?

3. What is the most likely reason why you could not get rich?

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