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except that you understand
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that storage costs for stocks are negative
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because they pay a dividend.
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So, all I've done is I've--
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the way I wrote it before was
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P times one plus r plus s in the preceding lecture;
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now it's P times one plus r minus y
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because s = -y.
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That's the fair value of a stock index futures.
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Now, we said last time that
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sometimes prices deviate from fair value--
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or maybe they don't depending on how you define fair value.