The stock price (per share) for a company's shares on December 13, 2017 is $515.00 You own 10 shares which you bought at $500 per share. To save taxes you want sell the shares after 2 months. You wish to protect an unrealized gain on your investment (10x ($515-$500) over this period. The prices( option premia) for European type options below are available to you. What will be the cost (nearest penny) of creating a European collar to protect your gain

Match the given situations to the type of risks that a business may face while taking credit.(there's not just one answer)1. beta ltd. had taken a loan from a bankfor a period of 15 years, but its salesare gradually showing a decline.2. alpha ltd. has taken a loan for increasing its production and sales,but it has not conducted any researchbefore making this decision.3. delphi ltd. has an overseas client. the economy of the client’s country is going through severe recession.4. delphi ltd. has taken a short-term loanfrom the bank, but its supply chain logistics are not in place.a. foreign exchange riskb. operational riskc. term of loan riskd. revenue projections risk

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

The following pertains to smoke, inc.’s investment in debt securities: on december 31, year 3, smoke reclassified a security acquired during the year for $70,000. it had a $50,000 fair value when it was reclassified from trading to available-for-sale. an available-for-sale security costing $75,000, written down to $30,000 in year 2 because of an other-than-temporary impairment of fair value, had a $60,000 fair value on december 31, year 3. what is the net effect of the above items on smoke’s net income for the year ended december 31, year 3?