Answer:
The dollar cost of using a money market hedge to hedge 200,000 British pounds of payable due in 180 days is <u>$400,152.38</u>.
Explanation:
A money market hedge refers to a method that employed to to preserve the value of a foreign currency transaction in the domestic currency of a company in order to reduce the exchange rate or currency risk that is associated with business transactions with a foreign company.
For this question, the dollar cost of using a money market hedge can be calculated as follows:
Amount needed to invest in British pounds = Amount needed to hedge / (1 + British interest rate) = £200,000 / (1 + 0.05) = £190,476.19
Since this is in British pounds, we have to convert to the US dollars to obtain the amount of the US dollars that is needed to exchange as follows:
Amount needed to invest in the US dollars = Amount needed to invest in British pounds * Spot rate of the pound = £190,476.19 * $2.02 = $384,761.90
We can now calculate the amount needed to repay loan after 180-day as follow:
Amount needed to repay loan after 180-day = Amount needed to invest in the US dollars * (1 + U.S. interest rate) = $384,761.90 * (1 + 0.04) = $400,152.38
Therefore, the dollar cost of using a money market hedge to hedge 200,000 British pounds of payable due in 180 days is <u>$400,152.38</u>.
