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Consider a non-dividend paying stock with current price $300.11. The1-year spot rate is 2.5% and a futures contract on the stock with maturity 1 year is trading at $313.77. Suppose you borrow so that you can buy 680 shares of the stock. Moreover, you sell 680 futures contracts. The payoff of your position at maturity is

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