A large transportation company must buy 100,000 gallons of gas each quarter. The company is concerned about the possibility of conflict with Iran. The company believes that there is 70% chance of a conflict, in which case it believes that the spot price (i.e. the current price) of gasoline will rise to $3.50 per gallon. If there is no conflict, the company believes that the price will fall to $2.50 per gallon. A large transportation company must buy 100,000 gallons of gas each quarter. The company is concerned about the possibility of conflict with Iran. The company believes that there is 70% chance of a conflict, in which case it believes that the spot price (i.e. the current price) of gasoline will rise to $3.50 per gallon. If there is no conflict, the company believes that the price will fall to $2.50 per gallon.

If the company buys gas futures, which lock in the price of gasoline at $3.25 per gallon, what will be the expected cost of buying 100,000 gallons of gas? (Enter an integer) (Note: there is no cost to entering into a gas futures contract except that the company will be obligated to buy 100,000 gallons at $3.25 per gallon if it enters into the contract.)

Suppose Professor Stahnke has a second job working as a consultant trying to forecast the political situation in the Middle East. Assume that based on his research, Professor Stahnke will predict whether or not there will be a conflict with Iran with 100% accuracy. Professor Stahnke is offering his forecasting services for the modest price of $15,000. If the transportation company bought Professor Stahnke's forecast, what will be the expected cost of buying 100,000 gallons of oil next quarter (including the cost of the forecast)?

What is the most the company would be willing to pay Professor Stahnke? (Enter an integer)

1. Comparison Companies?

What I expect is to compare and contrast the Employment Branding Strategies OR the Talent Acquisition Policies and Practices of a large-cap company listed in Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and a large-cap company listed in London Stock Exchange or Dow Jones Industrial Index.  The main reason for specifying listed companies is that they provide more information that general public can access.

It will be easier to make comparison if the companies are in the same industry or they have involvement in the same business.

You will first describe the two companies and give explanations why you choose these two. Compare and contrast the two companies, i.e., analyse. Evaluate their effectiveness based on the evidence from literature, previous findings from previous studies. The key is that your evaluation and judgment are based on evidence and not purely "I think". You can certainly provide your own opinions but they need to be logical with some bases to avoid falling into the trap of "I think it is good, therefore, it is good".

3. What BMP results are RELEVANT and must be recognized as clinically significant by the nurse?

4. What is the primary problem that your patient is most likely presenting with?

5. What is the underlying cause/pathophysiology of this primary problem?

Provider Orders:

6. Please Review the orders written by the provider and give a rationale for each order as well as the expected patient outcome for the order.

7. Which orders would you implement first and why?

Nursing Care

8. What three nursing diagnoses will guide your plan of care? (list in order of PRIORITY)

9. What interventions will you initiate based on your nursing diagnoses?  Please provide a sound evidence-based rationale with citation and expected outcome for each nursing intervention. (This must be completed for all three).

10. . What body system(s) will you most thoroughly assess based on the primary/priority concern?

11. What is the worst possible/most likely complication to anticipate?

12. What nursing assessments will identify this complication EARLY if it develops?

13. What nursing interventions will you initiate if this complication develops?

14. What psychosocial needs will this patient and/or family likely have that will need to be addressed?

15. How can the nurse address these psychosocial needs?

The Article"Amazon Profit Falls as Pandemic-Related Costs Rise"

NEW YORK — Amazon’s sales soared in the first three months of the year, as more homebound people shopped online amid the coronavirus pandemic.

But getting millions of packages to shopper’s doorsteps is expensive. The rising costs pushed Amazon’s first-quarter profit down 29% and its earnings missed Wall Street expectations. Amazon shares slipped about 5% in after-hours trading April 30.

And CEO and founder Jeff Bezos says Amazon will spend more.

Bezos said he expects the company to spend $4 billion “and perhaps a bit more” in the second quarter. That money will go to pay workers overtime, to buy masks or other safety protection for them and to disinfect Amazon’s vast warehouses where orders are packed and shipped.

Still, the company is in better financial position than most traditional retailers. Macy’s, Kohl’s and Gap temporarily closed their stores, losing much of their sales. They also have stopped paying their workers.

Amazon, whose reputation is built on speedy deliveries, has struggled to keep up with the surge in orders. Deliveries that took two days or less can now take a week or longer. And it is sold out of many of the products people need, like toilet paper and disinfectant sprays.

The problem, Amazon said, is that it can’t get products into its warehouses and out again fast enough. The company doesn’t know when delivery times will return to normal.

“Right now, things are still so up in the air that I can’t really project when that day will be,” said Brian Olsavsky, Amazon’s chief financial officer.

It has hired 175,000 people to try to keep up with the rush of orders and is paying workers an extra $2 an hour. But many have stayed home, worried they may contract the virus at the warehouse where thousands of people work. Some have protested what they said were unsafe conditions.

In France, a court closed all six Amazon warehouses, saying that the company didn’t do enough to protect workers. Amazon has said it provides workers with face masks, has been checking temperatures and keeps workers apart.

Overall, the Seattle-based company reported net income of $2.54 billion in the first quarter, compared with $3.56 billion a year ago. Earnings per share came to $5.01, below the $6.23 analysts expected, according to FactSet.

Revenue rose 26% to $75.45 billion, beating the $73.7 billion analysts expected.

Outside of online shopping, Amazon’s other businesses also grew. Revenue at its cloud computing business, which helps powers video streaming site Netflix and other companies, rose 33%.

At Whole Foods, revenue rose 8%. Amazon said much of the sales increase happened in March, when shoppers headed to Whole Foods to stock up on groceries due to the pandemic.

Its total workforce topped 840,000 at the end of March, adding more than 42,000 employees since the end of last year. Amazon.com Inc. is the second-largest U.S.-based employer behind Walmart.

Summarize and describe importance of story. What are the implications for this story on the future? The story should be three robust paragraphs

3. On 1/1, a manufacturing firm plans to borrow $100M in 4 months to build a factory. The loan will last one year. A different financial institution is offering a Eurodollar FRA at 5% starting in 4 months and lasting for 3 months on a notional principal of $100M. Assume the bank’s actual loan is at LIBOR+0.5% (annual rate) and interest is compounded and paid quarterly. For the day count convention just assume N/360 is .25 for a quarter. Note that the payout of the FRA is based solely on LIBOR and has no connection to the loan actually being taken out by the manufacturing firm. a. What position does the firm take to hedge its interest rate risk for the first 3 months of the loan? b. What is the interest the bank would pay for the first three months if LIBOR could be set today at 5%? c. It turns out that LIBOR at the end of April is 4%. Please calculate the interest on the loan for the first 3 months, the cash flow associated with the FRA, and the effective interest paid for the first 3 months.

You purchased a property for P4.25M. In the first month that you bought the property, you spent quarter of a million on repairs and remodelling. Immediately after the property was fixed, somebody offered you P5.45M for the property. After some thought, you decided to keep the property and have it rented for P45K per month starting two months after the remodelling. You collected rent for 15 months and then sold the property for P6M. If the interest rate was 1.5% per month, how much extra money did you make or lose by not selling the property immediately after it was remodelled?

In the last quarter of​ 2007, a group of 64 mutual funds had a mean return of 5.9% with a standard deviation of 7.1​%.

If a normal model can be used to model​ them, what percent of the funds would you expect to be in each​ region? Use the​ 68-95-99.7 rule to approximate the probabilities rather than using technology to find the values more precisely. Be sure to draw a picture first.

Bronco Electronics' current assets consist of cash, marketable securities, accounts receivable, and inventories. The following data were abstracted from a recent financial statement: Inventories $ 205,000

Total assets $ 1,730,000

Current ratio 3.8

Acid-test ratio 2.80

Debt to equity ratio 1.5

Required:

Compute the current assets for Bronco:

Calculate the expected life of N (# of cycles) in a compression spring with the specifications.

Material: 302 Stainless Steel

End type: closed

Overall Length: 2"

OD: 0.5"

ID: 0.406"

Wire Diameter: 0.047"

Wire Shape: Round

Compressed Lenght: 1.35"

Maximum Load: 3.8 lbs

Rate: 5.85 lbs/in

RoHS: Compliant

If you wished to construct an optimal risky portfolio with these two assets, what is the percentage this portfolio would consist of for risk asset 1? And risk asset 2?