Acompany wants to forecast demand using the simple moving average. if the company uses five prior yearly sales values (i. e., year 2009 = 130, year 2010 = 125, and year 2011 =145, year 2012=160, year 2013=165), with the following weights (i. e., wt-1 =0.4, wt-2 =0.3, wt-3 =0.1, wt-4 =0.1, wt-5 =0.1), which of the following is the weighted moving average forecast for year 2014?

You manage an equity fund with an expected risk premium of 10% and a standard deviation of 14%. the rate on treasury bills is 6%. your client chooses to invest $60,000 of her portfolio in your equity fund and $40,000 in a t-bill money market fund. what is the expected return and standard deviation of return on your client’s portfolio?

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Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.