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Posted: 05 April 2010 12:02 PM   [ Ignore ]

David,

We know that T period spot rate can be written as

(1+RT)^T=(1+R1)(1+F1,2).......(1+FT-1,T)

Now if R1 is for first 3 months, then F12 is the 3-6 FRA rate,.....FT-1,T is the 9-12 FRA rate then how to us ethe above formula to get RT i.e. the 1-year interest rate???