Question 1 This question is on open interest and trading volume of derivatives. a. How is open interest different than trading volume? On a trading day‚ can trading volume exceed open interest? b. Why does the open interest usually decline during the month preceding the delivery month? Question 2 Use the Black-Scholes model to value a call option on the following stock: Time to expiration 6 months Standard deviation 50% per year Exercise price $50 Stock price $50 Interest
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India Dr. Santhi .V Department Of Humanities Psg College of Technology Coimbatore‚ India ABSTRACT Research in behavioral finance is relatively new. Within behavioral finance it is assumed that information structure and the characteristics of market participants systematically influence individuals’ investment decisions as well as market outcomes. According to behavioral finance‚ investor market behavior derives from psychological principles of decision making to explain why people buy or sell stocks
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Four types of computers * * * * * digg * category: Introduction to Computing Table of Contents * 1.Supercomputer * 1.1.Uses of Supercomputer * 1.1.1.Space Exploration * 1.1.2.Earthquake studies * 1.1.3.Weather Forecasting * 1.1.4.Nuclear weapons testing * 1.2.Popular Supercomputers * 2.Mainframe computer * 2.1.Popular Mainframe computers * 3.Minicomputer * 3.1.Popular Minicomputers * 4.Microcomputer
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Final Finance Exam Notes Definitions: 1. Capital Budgeting is the process of evaluating proposed large‚ long-term investment projects. Capital budgeting is primarily concerned with evaluating investment alternatives. The first step in the capital budgeting process is idea development. A characteristic of capital budgeting is the internal rate of return must be greater than the cost of capital. One of the simplest capital budgeting decision method is the payback method. Capital budgeting
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Chapter 3 Time Value of Money: An Introduction Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education. Chapter Outline 3.1 Cost-Benefit Analysis 3.2 Market Prices and the Valuation Principle 3.3 The Time Value of Money and Interest Rates 3.4 Valuing Cash Flows at Different Points in Time Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education. 3-2 Learning Objectives • Identify the role of financial managers and competitive markets in decision making • Understand the Valuation Principle‚ and how it can be used to identify
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FINC2011 Tutorial 1 BMA Ch.1 Problems 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 7‚ 9‚ 10‚ 11‚ 12 |1.| |Read the following passage: “Companies usually buy (a) assets. These include both tangible assets such as (b) and | | | |intangible assets such as (c). To pay for these assets‚ they sell (d) assets such as (e). The decision about which | | | |assets to buy is usually termed the (f) or (g) decision. The decision about how to raise the money is usually termed | | | |the (h) decision.” Now fit each of the following
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Australia was hit by the financial crisis in 2009 but bounced back quickly after only one quarter of negative growth. There was a fiscal stimulus package for more than US$50 billion and interest rates were cut to historic lows by the Australian Reserve Bank. Unemployment peaked at 5.7% in late 2009 and has fallen to 5% in 2011 (World factbook). Australia has had a negative current account for the past five years with a low of negative AU$69.34 billion (about US$58 billion) in 2007 and a high of
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UVA-F-1489 Version 2.0 GAINESBORO MACHINE TOOLS CORPORATION In mid-September 2005‚ Ashley Swenson‚ chief financial officer (CFO) of Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation‚ paced the floor of her Minnesota office. She needed to submit a recommendation to Gainesboro’s board of directors regarding the company’s dividend policy‚ which had been the subject of an ongoing debate among the firm’s senior managers. Compounding her problem was the uncertainty surrounding the recent impact of Hurricane
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1 Bonds (3 points) A company aims to takeover one of its suppliers valued at 2 million Euros and is planning to fund the takeover by issuing three-year zero coupon bonds‚ each with face value C1000. After having their credit rating checked‚ executives have decided that they need to issue 2400 of these bonds to raise the 2 million needed to fund this takeover. What is the YTM of the bonds issued by the company? (a) 5.79% (b) 7.13% (c) 6.27% (d) 5.34% If the company’s credit rating changes due to
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riskiness of the project relative to riskiness of the firm 9 Finding Comparable Pure Play § Often difficult to find comparable pure play companies § Honda enters aircraft business § Honda Motors Beta: § Embraer Source: Google Finance 0.96 1.65 10 Systematic vs.
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