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Consider a wager that will pay either $55 or $20, with equal probability. a. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the expected payoff. b. If the cost of the wager is $35, calculate the expected return and the standard deviation of holding-period returns. What if the cost of the wager is $30? c. Now assume the risk-free rate is 3.0 percent, the market risk premium is 6.5 percent, the standard deviation of holding-period returns of the market portfolio is 18 percent, and the correlation between the payoff of the bet and the return you could earn by investing in the market portfolio is 0.4. Use the CEQ approach and Equation 9.8 to compute the PV of the wager. d. What is the NPV of the wager if it is acquired for $30? e. What is the correct risk-adjusted discount rate for this wager?
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A Treasury bond with the longest maturity (30 years) has an ask price quoted at 98:09. The coupon rate is 3.80 percent, paid semi-annually. What is the yield to maturity of this bond?
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To pay off $50,000,000 worth of new construction bonds when they come due in 18 years, a water municipality must deposit money into a sinking fund. Payments to the fund will be made quarterly, starting three months from now. If the interest rate for ..
The best of a group of independent projects competing for the firm’s fixed capital budget of $4.5 million. The firm recognizes that any unused portion of this budget will earn less than its 15% cost of capital, thereby resulting in a present value of..
(Cost of debt) The Walgreen Corporation is contemplating a new investment that it plans to finance using one-third debt. The firm can sell new $1,000 par value bods with a 15-year maturity at a price of $948 that carry a coupon interest rate of 12.6 ..
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