Answer:
Ans. The equilibrium rate of return on a 1-year Treasury bond is 6.65% (please check the explanation)
Explanation:
Hi, well, this type of bonds exist so people can avoid the time value of money risk, in other words, to keep money save from inflation and provide a risk free return at the same time. From a part of the text I can tell that the person who wrote it wanted to add up the risk free rate and the inflation rate, that is 3.05%+3.60% =6.65%.
This is why I wrote this answer, but the truth is that since they are both effective rates (risk free rate and inflation), they need to be add as effective rates, that is:

Therefore


So the real equilibrium rate of return is 6.76%, but for the sake of the question, I wrote 6.65%.
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When a company exchanges 200 shares of stock worth $20 each for 100 shares worth $40 each, they are using reverse stock split.
A reverse stock split is a corporate action in which a firm or a company reduces the number of shares it has outstanding by a set multiple. For example, if a company announces a reverse stock split of 1:50, this means that once the split occurs investors will receive one share for every 100 shares they own.
Answer
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Explanation
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Answer:
Risk free interest rate is 5%
Y is 15.5% at a Beta of 1.5
X is 0.29 when Y is 7%
Explanation:
Risk free interest is 0.05 which 5% as given in the equation
The average expected return is given by Y
Y=0.05+0.07X
Since Beta is the same as X, when equals 1.5,Y is calculated thus
Y=0.05+0.07(1.5)
Y=0.05+0.105
Y=0.155
Y=15.5%
The value of Beta at an average return of 7% is computed thus:
7%=0.05+0.07X
where X is the unknown
0.07=0.05+0.07X
0.07-0.05=0.07X
0.02=0.07X
X=0.02/0.07
X=0.29
The scenario illustrates that the Beta, which is the risk of investment and the Y , the expected average return are positively correlated.
Answer: B. The investor has a short-term capital loss of $20,000.
Explanation:
A short-term loss occurs when a deficit is realized when there's a sale of an asset which has been held by the person for a period of one year or less.
In this case, since the security was worthless, it's a loss and was also help for six months which is less than one year, then it's a short term capital loss.
Therefore, the correct option is B