Andrea bought futures contracts on 560,000 pounds of domestic sugar at a price of 21.48 cents per pound. Futures contracts on sugar are for 112,000 pounds. What is the amount of Andrea's profit or loss if the price at contract expiration is 21.32?
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=560000*(21.32-21.48)/100
=-896.0000
Loss of 896
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day at the last price of the day. Use Table 23.1
What will your profit or loss be if coffee prices turn out to be
$1.4567 per pound at expiration? (Do not round intermediate
calculations. Enter your answer as a positive value and round your
answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
Table 23.1:
Sample Wall Street Journal Futures Price Quotations TABLE 23.1 Metal &Petroleum Futures Contract Op en...
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