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Statoil's Arbitrage.  Statoil, the national oil company of Norway, is a large, sophisticated, and active participant in both the currency and petrochemical markets. Although it is a Norwegian company, because it operates within the global oil market, it considers the U.S. dollar, rather than the Norwegian krone, as its functional currency. Ari Karlsen is a currency trader for Statoil, and has immediate use of either $3 million (or the Norwegian krone equivalent). He is faced with the following market rates and wonders whether he can make some arbitrage profits in the coming 90 days.
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 Abitrage funds available  | 
 $  | 
 3,000,000  | 
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 Spot exchange rate (Nok/$)  | 
 6.0314  | 
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 3-month forward rate (Nok/$)  | 
 6.0187  | 
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 U.S. dollar annual interest rate  | 
 4.999  | 
 %  | 
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 Norwegian krone annual interest rate  | 
 4.446  | 
 %  | 
CIA profit potential is 0.291%, what is the CIA profit amount?