for Prof Washington Watson
4.Access the prevailing rates set by the Federal Reserve Board.
· Prepare a chart and analyze your selected commercial bank’s historical profitability with the Federal Reserve interest rates over the past five years
· Discuss how these rates affected your bank’s profitability
8.Prepare a forecast of your selected bank’s projected profitability (You forecast this!).
· Assume that the Federal Reserve Board holds the interest rates “as is" or constant
· Discuss the impact this constant interest rate would have on three years of your bank’s profitability