What will be your nominal return over the two years if inflation is 3% in the first year and 5% in the second? What will be your real return? Now suppose that the bond is a TIPS. What will be your real and nominal return?
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Suppose that a non-dividend paying stock is trading at $80 and the risk-free rate is 4.0% (continuous compounding). Consider two American call options with two-months to expiration – one with a strike price of $100 and another with a strike price of ..
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Given the following information for XYZ Co., you want to find the cost of capital (WACC). The firm’s tax rate is 40%. Ignore all the flotation cost. Debt: 8,000 7% coupon bonds outstanding, $1,000 par value, 15 years to maturity, selling for 98% of p..
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You want your portfolio beta to be 0.90. Currently, your portfolio consists of $4,000 invested in stock A with a beta of 1.47 and $3,000 in stock B with a beta of 0.54. You have another $9,000 to invest and want to divide it between an asset with a b..
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Teakap, Inc., has current assets of $ 1,456,312 and total assets of $4,812,369 for the year ending September 30, 2006. It also has current liabilities of $1,041,012, common equity of $1,500,000, and retained earnings of $1,468,347. How much long-term..
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Give your opinion on what type of online threat would be most detrimental to an e-Commerce Website of your choice. Explain your answer. Using your answer to the previous discussion, explain which online security method would be the most efficient in ..
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Myoptic Optical is a levered no-growth firm with $1, 400, 000 debt outstanding. Firm value is $2, 277, 500. The firm's owner is currently contemplating whether to reduce its debt ratio to a more reasonable 40%. What will be Myoptic Optical's new cost..
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A share of stock is now selling for $105. It will pay a dividend of $7 per share at the end of the year. Its beta is 1. What do investors expect the stock to sell for at the end of the year? Assume the risk-free rate is 7% and the expected rate of re..
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Give an example of how your newly acquired knowledge of Time Value of Money (TVM) calculations could better prepare you for the next negotiation or big-ticket purchase in your life.
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The maintenance and operations costs for a piece of equipment are estimated to be $700 the first month and increase by $20 per month over the equipment's 3 year life. For budgeting purposes, the owner wants to set aside a uniform amount each month to..
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Your Company is considering an investment project that has the following information: Initial investment (machine one) = $ 15,000,000. The machine one will be depreciated by MACRS 3-year rates. The machine one requires initial net operating working c..
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Cortez Art Gallery is adding to its existing buildings at a cost of $2 million. The gallery expects to bring in additional cash flows of $520,000, $700,000, and $1,000,000 over the next three years. Given a required rate of return of 10 percent, what..
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