The FTSE 100 is an index of the 100 largest market capitalization stocks traded on the London Stock Exchange. You think that 100 stocks are too much to keep up with, so you want to drop that number to 75. By doing this, what is the percentage drop in..
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A fast-growing firm recently paid a dividend of $0.60 per share. The dividend is expected to increase at a 20 percent rate for the next four years. Afterwards, a more stable 12 percent growth rate can be assumed. If a 13.5 percent discount rate is ap..
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Harper’s Dog Pens, Inc., with the help of its investment bank, recently issued $194.3 million of new debt. The offer price on the debt was $1,000 per bond and the underwriter’s spread was 5 percent of the gross proceeds. Calculate the amount of capit..
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Find the interest rates earned on each of the following. Round each answer to two decimal places. You borrow $70,000 and promise to pay back $648,587 at the end of 15 years.
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Your Company is considering a new project that will require $830,000 of new equipment at the start of the project. The equipment will have a depreciable life of 6 years and will be depreciated to a book value of $164,000 using straight-line depreciat..
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Gomez runs a small pottery firm. He hires one helper at $15,500 per year, pays annual rent of $5,500 for his shop, and spends $21,000 per year on materials. He has $40,000 of his own funds invested in equipment (pottery wheels, kilns, and so forth) t..
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Suppose a firm’s business operations mirror movements in the economy as a whole very closely—that is, the firm’s asset beta is 1. Find the equity beta for this firm for debt–equity ratios of 0, 1.6, 6.2, and 25.
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Genetic Insights Co. purchases an asset for $19,773. This asset qualifies as a seven-year recovery asset under MACRS. The seven-year fixed depreciation percentages for years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are 14.29%, 24.49%, 17.49%, 12.49%, 8.93%, and 8.93%, r..
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You want to buy a $500,000 house and you have two options for a mortgage: What would be the effective borrowing cost on the two loans if you want to hold the mortgages to maturity? Which one do you prefer? (In other words, which one has the lowest ef..
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Write a summary of the attached Article by Mishkin, Frederic S - Over the Cliff: From the Subprime to the Global Financial Crisis';
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Haskell Corp. is comparing two different capital structures. Plan I would result in 13,000 shares of stock and $100,000 in debt. Plan II would result in 10,500 shares of stock and $150,000 in debt. The interest rate on the debt is 10 percent. a. Igno..
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Risk and Return, Coefficient of Variation. Based on the following information, calculate the coefficient of variation and select the best investment based on the risk/reward relationship:
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