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A 20-year $100-par-value bond with a coupon rate of 10% is selling at par. The bond...

  1. A 20-year $100-par-value bond with a coupon rate of 10% is selling at par. The bond is deliverable for a futures contract that settles in three months. The annualized 3-month interest rate is 6%. At this rate funds can be borrowed to purchase the underlying bond in a cash-and-carry strategy. If the futures is priced at $101, is there any arbitrage opportunity and why?
  1. No, the futures is priced fairly.
  2. Yes, the futures is overpriced based on the cash-and-carry strategy.     *
  3. Yes, the futures is underpriced based on the cash-and-carry strategy.   
  4. Yes, for par bonds the futures and the underlying bond should always have the same price.
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C. Yes, the futures is underpriced.

Bases on the image, it is seen that that price of the bond is underpriced.

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