You are given two risky assets. The first is a stock fund and the second is a bond fund. A T-bill fund yields a rate of 5%. The T-bill fund is a risk-free asset. The stock fund has an expected return of 8% and a standard deviation of 23%. The bond fund has an expected return of 3% and a standard deviation of 8%%. The correlation between the risky fund returns is 2%. If an investor requires that the standard deviation of the complete portfolio to not exceed 13%, what is the portfolio weight of the optimal risky portfolio in the complete portfolio

Dahlia enterprises needs someone to supply it with 127,000 cartons of machine screws per year to support its manufacturing needs over the next five years, and you’ve decided to bid on the contract. it will cost you $940,000 to install the equipment necessary to start production; you’ll depreciate this cost straight-line to zero over the project’s life. you estimate that in five years, this equipment can be salvaged for $77,000. your fixed production costs will be $332,000 per year, and your variable production costs should be $11.00 per carton. you also need an initial investment in net working capital of $82,000. if your tax rate is 30 percent and your required return is 11 percent on your investment, what bid price should you submit? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16))

Kevin and jenny, who are both working full-time, have three children all under the age of ten. the two youngest children, who are three and five years old, attended eastside pre-school for a total cost of $3,000. ervin, who is nine, attended big kid daycare after school at a cost of $2,000. jenny has earned income of $15,000 and kevin earns $14,000. what amount of childcare expenses should be used to determine the child and dependent care credit?

If springfield is operating at full employment who is working a. everyone b. about 96% of the workforce c. the entire work force d. the robots