Use the information presented in Midwestern Mutual Bank's balance sheet to answer the following questions. Bankâs Balance Sheet
Assets Liabilities and Owners' Equity
Reserves $200 Deposits $2,000
Loans $1,000 Debt $150
Securities $800 Capital (owners' equity) -$150
Suppose the owners of the bank borrow $100 to supplement their existing reserves. This would increase the reserves account and the account.
a. increase
b. decrease
i. capital
ii. debt
iii. deposits
iv. loans
v. reserves
This would also bring the leverage ratio from its initial value of to a new value of.
Which of the following is true of the capital requirement?
a. It specifies a minimum leverage ratio for all banks.
b. The higher the percentage of assets a bank holds as loans, the higher the capital requirement.
c. Its intended goal is to protect the interests of those who hold equity in the bank.

Stocks a, b, and c are similar in some respects: each has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 25%. stocks a and b have returns that are independent of one another; i.e., their correlation coefficient, r, equals zero. stocks a and c have returns that are negatively correlated with one another; i.e., r is less than 0. portfolio ab is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half in stock b. portfolio ac is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half invested in stock c. which of the following statements is correct? a. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.b. portfolio ac has an expected return that is less than 10%.c. portfolio ac has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.d. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is equal to 25%.e. portfolio ac has an expected return that is greater than 25%.

After the embarrassing sign incident at the restaurant you own, you decide to offer employees a six-week fundamental writing skills workshop. a local business communication instructor, who has experience teaching writing skills at treleaven community college, will facilitate the sessions. to encourage employees to attend these optional sessions, write an email that explains why you’re offering the workshop and why employees should participate.

Advertisers are usually very conscious of their audience. choose an issue of a popular magazine such as time, sports illustrated, vanity fair, rolling stone, or the like. from that issue select three advertisements to analyze. try to determine the audience being appealed to in each advertisement and analyze the appeals used to persuade buyers. how might the appeals differ is the ads were designed to persuade a different audience.