Estimating Cost of Capital Measures Sprint Nextel Corporation (S) has $24.3 billion in total debt (which approximates its market value.) Each year this debt costs the company about $1.5 billion in interest expense. The company's market capitalization approximates $17.2 billion, its market beta is estimated 2.12, and its marginal tax rate is 35%. Assume that the risk-free rate equals 5.3% and the market premium equals 5.7%. Rounding Instructions: Do not round until your final answers. Round answers to one decimal place. (a) Estimate Sprint Nextel's cost of debt capital.

Outstanding stock consists of 8,300 shares of cumulative 7% preferred stock with a $10 par value and 4,300 shares of common stock with a $1 par value. during the first three years of operation, the corporation declared and paid the following total cash dividends. year dividend declared 2016 $ 0 2017 $ 7,300 2018 $ 45,000 the amount of dividends paid to preferred and common shareholders in 2018 is:

Suppose that hubert, an economist from an am talk radio program, and kate, an economist from a nonprofit organization on the west coast, are arguing over government bailouts. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: kate: to recent financial crises, the concept of bailouts is a hot topic for debate among everyone these days. hubert: indeed, it’s gotten crazy! a government bailout of severely distressed financial firms is unnecessary because free markets will properly price assets. kate: i don’t know about that. without a bailout of severely distressed financial firms, the economy will experience a deep recession. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due todifferences in scientific judgments . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? business managers can raise profit more easily by reducing costs than by raising revenue. central banks should focus more on maintaining low unemployment than on maintaining low inflation. employers should not be restricted from outsourcing work to foreign nations

The research of robert siegler and eric jenkins on the development of the counting-on strategy is an example of design.