An investor is an avid bond purchase. He requires a 5% return on
his bond purchases, yet, the bonds today currently yield 4% as a AA
rated bond. How can he achieve a 5% return on his bond purchases in
the future?
Please explain also how he can reduce changes in bond prices that
are part of his portfolio
In: Finance
Please explain if the following statements are true, false or both:
a) Increased investments decrease national savings.
b) Monetary neutrality is: "When money supply changes, relative price doesn't change either"
c) In monopoly, marginal revenue is always lower than the price.
d) Deadweight loss due to taxation is greater when supply and demand elasticity is greater
In: Economics
1. You purchased an IBM bond with a face value of $10,000 and an
interest rate of 10%. Suddenly, the market interest rate changes,
which raises your bond price by $600.
What was the original price of the bond? (Compute this answer to
two decimal places.)_____?
2.What is the new market interest rate? (Compute this answer to two decimal places.)______?
In: Economics
You are relaxing in a hot tub for 15 minutes until your peripheral blood vessels are very vasodilated. As you stand up to leave the hot tub, your blood pressure rapidly changes from 120/70 to 90/60. As compensatory mechanisms begin to be activated, discuss the cellular chain of events that will occur in your vascular smooth muscle cells.
In: Nursing
Experiment: Lewis Dot Structures, Hybridization, and Shapes of Molecules and Ions
| Ion or Compound |
Number of Valence e^- in Structure |
Lewis Dot Structure | Number of e^- around Central Atom | Resonance Structure (If any, show changes) | Hybridization | Electronic Geometry | Molecular Geometry | Is the Compound Polar? |
| H2CO3 | ||||||||
|
S2O2^2- thiosulfate ion |
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| SF4 | ||||||||
| AlCl3 | ||||||||
| XeF4 | ||||||||
| H3PO3 |
In: Chemistry
Identify the major components of stockholders’ equity by examining the Statement of Stockholders’ Equity. What types of transactions resulted in significant changes in the Stockholder Equity accounts during the most recent year? Did your company make dividend payments to stockholders during the most recent year?
For the Company UPS. Using information from UPS website/yahoo finance
In: Accounting
indicators pointing towards the reporting entity's as the functional currency include that which of the following?
1) production costs and operating expenses are determined primarily by local conditions
2) sales are mostly in the county of the reporting entity
3) there are active local markets, although there may be significant amounts of exports
4) prices are not primarily responsive in the short term to exchange rate changes
In: Accounting
In: Economics
Analyze the reasons why a short-term project might be ranked higher under the NPV criterion if the cost of capital is high, while a long-term project might be deemed better if the cost of capital is low. Determine whether or not changes in the cost of capital could ever cause a change in the internal rate of return (IRR) ranking of two (2) projects.
In: Finance
- Define Classical Theory of inflation; Classical Dichotomy: how nominal and real variables are affected by changes in money supply in the long run? In the short-run? Define and bring examples of nominal and real variables.
- What factors cause real exchange rate to rise? What does real exchange rate appreciation (depreciation) imply for net exports? Why?
In: Economics