Boeing just signed a contract to sell a boeing 737 aircraft to air france. air france will be billed €20 million payable in one year. the current spot exchange rate is $1.05/€ and the one-year forward rate is $1.10/€. the annual interest rate is 6 percent in the united states and 5 percent in france. boeing is concerned with the volatile exchange rate between the dollar and the euro and would like to hedge exchange exposure.

a. it is considering two hedging alternatives: sell the euro proceeds from the sale forward or borrow euros from credit lyonnaise against the euro receivable. which alterntive would you recommend? why?

b. other things being equal, at what forward exchange rate would boeing be indifferent between the two hedging methods?

Companies in the u. s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

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