Answer:
C. stock indexes are unbiased and perfect indicators of market activity.
Explanation:
Stock indexes are a tool that is used to track a group of assets using standardised criteria.
Usually indexes monitors a group of securities. Indexes can be broad based or specialised.
Indexes are statistically derived benchmarks that securities are measured against. They are however not unbiased and perfect indicators of market activity.
This is because investor behaviour cannot be guaged statistically.
However indexes replicate the market activity in a certain segment of the stock market, serve as a benchmark to evaluate investment manager performance, and are based on criteria that define the market segment of interest.
Answer: to historical performance or budget
Explanation:
A profit center in a business is a division that is able to make revenues independently and contribute to the revenue of the entire business. In evaluating the performance of a profit center manager, it is best to compare the performance to a budget or their historical performance.
This is because profit centers engage in different businesses and so their revenue making style will be unique. Some profit centers will make more than others because of the goods they produce or the way they produce it. It is therefore best to compare a profit center to an internal measure such as the budget and historical performance.
If the profit center exceeds either of these then they are performing well.
Answer:
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"Great Lakes Steel Supply is losing significant market share and thus its managers have decided to decrease the firm's annual dividend. The last annual dividend was $1.30 per share but all future dividends will be decreased by 2.75 percent annually. What is a share of this stock worth today at a required return of 15.5 percent? "
Explanation:
Use dividend discount model (DDM) to calculate the stock price
whereby,
P0 = Current price
D0 = Last dividend paid = 130
g = growth rate = -275% or -2.75 as a decimal
r = required return = 155% or 1.55 as a decimal
Next, plug in the numbers to the DDM formula above;
Therefore this stock is worth $6.93
Answer: c). according to the ppf, as we produce more of one product, eventually we have give up more and more of the other product.
Explanation: PPF shows all possible combination of goods that a country can produce with its limited resources. The slope of a PPF is the opportunity cost which shows the units of goods that must be sacrificed to gain more and more units of the other good. As we move down the PPF the opportunity cost increases. This means that <em>more and more units of a good must be sacrificed to gain additional units of the other good</em>.
