If a financial manager earning interest on a future date were to buy Futures and interest rates end up going up, the position outcome would be:

A) Futures price falls; short earns a profit.
B) Futures price rises; short earns a loss.
C) Future price falls; long earns a loss.
D) Futures price rises; long earns a profit.


Answer: C

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