Extracting Information from the Futures and Forwards Markets: The Relation between Spot Prices Forward Prices and Expected Future Spot Prices Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

Discounted Cash flow requires the use of expected future prices of inputs or outputs. This case describes the relationship between spot prices, forward / future prices and expected future prices. Knowing the current forward and futures prices are not sufficient to estimate the expected future prices, so go ahead and future prices are not, in general, a good estimate of the expected future prices. "Hide
by Lisa Meulbroek 4 pages. Publication Date: March 29, 2001. Prod. #: 201109-PDF-ENG

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