Nuredin Abdulahi Course: MGMT 499 Assignment: Nucor Case November 15‚ 2014 Nucor Corporation Case Analysis 1. What are the primary competitive forces impacting U.S. steel producers in general and the producers like Nucor that make new steel products via recycling scrap steel in particular? Please do a five-forces analysis Rivalry among Steel Producers There is a fierce competitive force in this industry. Rivalry revolves heavily around price competition because most steel products are commodities
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Running head: THE OPTION OF ADOPTION1 The Option of Adoption Child Psych 02/06/13 In class Brandy Calef spoke about adoption and the services offered that are specific to the Adoption Centre of Kansas where she is an adoption assistant. Brandy had information pamphlets ready to hand out as well as an example of an entrance packet that would ordinarily be handed out to birth mothers coming to the center for adoption services. She also provided us with business
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Gay Option In the article “The Gay Option”‚ Stephanie Fairyngton argues that it is wrong to think about homosexuality as deviations from nature’s norm. She understands that it is easy for people to think about homosexuality as an illness rather than a person’s choice. The main reason for this is that it is hard to understand people who choose this challenging state of beings. Because society has a stereotype of heterosexuality as somehow better choice than homosexuality‚ they would think that person
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Abortion is not A Option Women in the entire world should not abort because it has to do with religious values‚ human values‚ and values of conscience. Women believe there are many reasons to abort such as fear of having or raising a child‚ rape‚ or not having enough money. But whatever the situation‚ there is never an acceptable reason to get an abortion. The first reason why women should not abort has to do with religious values. In almost all religions‚ a woman is not permitted
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Do you Know? • What is Derivative Market? • What is Hedging? • What is OTC? • What is Exotic Option? Parisian Option Passport option Rainbow option Russian Option Shout Option Spread Option Parisian Option The pay off a standard European option only depends on the price of the underlying asset at the maturity date Passport option A Passport option grants its holder the right to engage in short/long trading strategy of his own choice A passport is a new contingent
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Option Valuation Chapter 21 Intrinsic and Time Value intrinsic value of in-the-money options = the payoff that could be obtained from the immediate exercise of the option for a call option: stock price – exercise price for a put option: exercise price – stock price the intrinsic value for out-the-money or at-themoney options is equal to 0 time value of an option = difference between actual call price and intrinsic value as time approaches expiration date‚ time value goes to zero 21-2
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following are always positively related to the price of a European call option on a stock? c. The volatility 5. When we talked about Vega hedging‚ if a portfolio has 1000 shares of SPY and 10 contracts of at-the-money December 2013 put option on SPY (and nothing else in the portfolio)‚ is the portfolio vega neutral? c. No‚ the portfolio can never be vega neutral. 6. Which of the following is not true? a. When a CBOE option on IBM is exercised‚ IBM issues more stock 7. Which of the following
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the exchange risk associated with the award payment being dispersed in British Pounds (GBP). He originally considered a forward contract or a spot contract‚ but is now investigating how currency options could help hedge against uncertain foreign exchange exposure. The CFO needs to decide whether or not options contracts might provide some benefit to hedge the currency risk. As of 1/14/86‚ Dozier has received a 10% deposit of the total contract value of £1‚175‚000.00. At the 1/13/86 exchange rate
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contract‚ the derivatives are settled at a future date. Role of Financial Derivatives. We can classify financial derivatives based on different parameters. The most common are: 1. Derivatives according to the type of contract involved: a. Options. b. Forwards. c. Contracts for difference. d. SWAPS. 2.
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MiniCase 2 Blades‚ Inc. Chap 5 1. If Blades uses call options to hedge its yen payables‚ should it use the call option with the exercise price of $0.00756 or the call option with the exercise price of $0.00792? Describe the tradeoff. 2. Should Blades allow its yen position to be unhedged? Describe the tradeoff. Chap 6 1. Did the intervention effort by the Thai government constitute direct or indirect intervention? Explain. 2. Did the intervention by the
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