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Expected Spot Rates. Suppose the spot exchange rate for the Kuwait dinar is KWD271. Interest rates in Australia are 4% per year. They are triple that in Kuwait. What do you predict the exchange rate will be in one year? In two years? In five years? What relationship are you using?

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