You manufacture wine goblets. In mid-June you receive an order for 100,000 goblets from Japan. Payment of 400,000 Yen is due in mid-December. You expect the Yen to rise from its present rate of $1= 130Yen to $1= 100Yen by December. You can borrow Yen at 6 percent a year. What should you do?
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Spot rate today: $/¥ = 1/130 ≈ 0.00769
Spot rate today: ¥/$ = 130
Expected spot rate in december: $/¥ = 1/100 = 0.01
Expected spot rate in december: ¥/$ = 100
Yen will appreciate relatively to dollar for +30.0%
Dollar will depreciate relatively to yen for -23.1%
There are many options…. June-December is 6 months period.
Case [1]: – do nothing (you will have simple FX premium due to currency appreciation)
Convert your 400’000 yens to dollars in december and as a result at the end you will have ¥400’000/100 =$4’000 dollars
Case[2] – FX market operations (forward)
If today’s forward rate is less than 100 yens per dollar (without discounting) – then buy this future swap ¥→$ today. For instance if market agree to swap at rate 80 yens per dollar in 6 months at the end you will have ¥400’000/80 =$5’000
Interest on yens is useless here, but if it’s possible to borrow dollars and convert it to yen till december – then depending on interest it may be profitable to convert $ to ¥ and get additional profits net interest from ¥ appreciation.
But actually there are many other costs, exchange margins (0.5~1% in each direction), and of course you may be wrong with your expectation about future exchange rate.
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You Manufacture Wine Goblets
It’s quite good