You have a two-stock portfolio. One stock has an expected return of 12% and a standard deviation of 24%. The other has an expected return of 8% and a standard deviation of 20%. You invested in these stocks equally (50% of your investment went toward each of the two stocks). If the two stocks are not perfectly positively correlated, which one of the following is the most feasible standard deviation of the portfolio?

A)23%B)22%C)21%D)not enough information to determine

Consider the following ethical argument. which of the three statements represents the moral statement about a moral principle? statement 1: a dealership advertised a car at a very low price, but only had a similar higher priced model in stock. statement 2: it is wrong to perform a bait and switch. statement 3: the dealership was wrong to advertise the car on special sale when in actually it was not available.

If a firm plans to issue new stock, flotation costs (investment bankers' fees) should not be ignored. there are two approaches to use to account for flotation costs. the first approach is to add the sum of flotation costs for the debt, preferred, and common stock and add them to the initial investment cost. because the investment cost is increased, the project's expected return is reduced so it may not meet the firm's hurdle rate for acceptance of the project. the second approach involves adjusting the cost of common equity as follows: . the difference between the flotation-adjusted cost of equity and the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment represents the flotation cost adjustment. quantitative problem: barton industries expects next year's annual dividend, d1, to be $1.90 and it expects dividends to grow at a constant rate g = 4.3%. the firm's current common stock price, p0, is $22.00. if it needs to issue new common stock, the firm will encounter a 6% flotation cost, f. assume that the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment is 12% and the cost of old common equity is 11.5%. what is the flotation cost adjustment that must be added to its cost of retaine

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