taxes investors pay on dividend income. Currently‚ any money an investor receives when a stock she owns pays a dividend to its investors is added to her total income at tax time. So dividend income is treated the same way‚ and is taxed at the same rate‚ as income from working. If the Bush plan becomes law‚ dividend income will no longer be added to an investor’s total income. As a result the dividends become exempt from taxation. The exact details of the plan are not currently known‚ because it has
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Interest Rate Risk in Islamic Banking Introduction Many countries‚ especially those with a substantial number of Muslim citizens operate a dual banking system. This system has both the Islamic and conventional banking systems which cater for the needs of both the Muslim bankers and the non-Muslim bankers. In a conventional and theoretical banking system‚ it would be expected that a change in the banking interest rates would yield a responsorial change for customers in the event that the customers
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Assignment 4 5. According to the IS-LM model‚ what happens to the interest rate‚ income‚ consumption and invest under the following circumstances. a. The central bank increases money supply. An increase in the money supple shifts the LM curve downward. The equilibrium moves from point A to point B. Income rises from Y1 to Y2 and the interest rate falls from r1 to r2. Therefore this increase in money supply causes a decrease in interest rate‚ an increase in income‚ an increase in consumption and an increase
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Inflation and Interest Rate Interest and inflation are key to investing decisions‚ since they have a direct impact on the investment yield. When prices rise‚ the same unit of a currency is able to buy less. A sustained deterioration in the purchasing power of money is called inflation. Investors aim to preserve the value of their money by opting for investments that generate yields higher than the rate of inflation. In most developed economies‚ banks try to keep the interest rates on savings accounts
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profit. Arbitrage is a strategy that investors use to not have to make an investment which includes no risk or funds being tied to a certain asset. There are three forms of international arbitrage: location arbitrage‚ triangular arbitrage and covered interest arbitrage. Location arbitrage is a process where a participant of the foreign exchange can go to one place‚ bank in a specified location‚ to purchase a currency at a lower price and then sell it to another location where the currency is priced
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there is a surplus and the interest rate will rise. b. there is a surplus and the interest rate will fall. c. there is a shortage and the interest rate will rise. d. there is a shortage and the interest rate will fall. 3. Which of the following would tend to shift the supply of dollars in the market for foreign-currency exchange in the open-economy macroeconomic model to the right? a. The exchange rate rises. b. The exchange rate falls. c. The expected rate of return on U.S. assets rises
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1. Describe the path of interest rates in Canada since WWII and specifically the past 2 decades. Over the past several decades the path of the interest rates were able to be recorded and charted. Strictly after World War II‚ interest rates seemed to drop for a bit‚ speculated that after the hype of the Second World War‚ there was not enough jobs for the returning soldiers‚ causing a recession. When the 50s arrived‚ the Government began to invest more into national security. This spending concerned
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versus floating exchange rates Introduction The exchange rate regime The exchange rate regime is the way a country manages its currency in respect to foreign currencies and the foreign exchange market. Each country has its exchange rate policy which determines the form of a government influence on the currency exchange rate. There are three main type of the exchange rate regime: • a floating exchange rate‚ where the market dictates the movements of the exchange rate‚ • and the fixed
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Question 1 ( 5 points) In a world with no frictions (taxes‚ etc.)‚ value is created by how you finance a project. True. False. Question 2 (5) The return of equity is equal to the return on debt of a project/firm Always true. Never true. Sometimes true. Question 3 (10 points) Moogle‚ Inc. is in the same business as Google‚ Inc.‚ but has recently retired all its debt to become an all-equity firm. Its return on equity has dropped from 12.25% to 10.60% as a result of this. Google‚ Inc. continues
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Question 1 Consider an option on a non-dividend-paying stock when the stock price is $30‚ the exercise price is $29‚ the risk-free interest rate is 5% per annum‚ the volatility is 25% per annum‚ and the time to maturity is four months. a. What is the price of the option if it is a European call? b. What is the price of the option if it is an American call? c. What is the price of the option if it is a European put? d. Verify that put–call parity holds. Question 2 Assume
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