A 30-year maturity bond has a 5.6% coupon rate, paid annually. It sells today for $876.17. A 20-year maturity bond has a 5.1% coupon rate, also paid annually. It sells today for $896.9. A bond market analyst forecasts that in five years, 25-year maturity bonds will sell at yields to maturity of 6.6% and 15-year maturity bonds will sell at yields of 6.1%. Because the yield curve is upward sloping, the analyst believes that coupons will be invested in short-term securities at a rate of 7.1%. A. Calculate the (annualized) expected rate of return of the 30-year bond over the 5-year period.

B. What is the (annualized) expected return of the 20-year bond?

He aldermanalderman company has prepared a sales budget of 42 comma 00042,000 finished units for a 3-month period. the company has an inventory of 10 comma 00010,000 units of finished goods on hand at december 31 and has a target finished goods inventory of 11 comma 00011,000 units at the end of the succeeding quarter. it takes 44 gallons of direct materials to make one unit of finished product. the company has inventory of 64 comma 00064,000 gallons of direct materials at december 31 and has a target ending inventory of 53 comma 00053,000 gallons at the end of the succeeding quarter. how many gallons of direct materials should aldermanalderman company purchase during the 3 months ending march 31? select the labels and enter the amounts to calculate the direct materials (gallons) to be purchased.

In june 2009, at the trough of the great recession, the bureau of labor statistics announced that of all adult americans, 140,196,000 were employed, 14,729,000 were unemployed and 80,729,000 were not in the labor force. use this information to calculate: a. the adult population b. the labor force c. the labor-force participation rate d. the unemployment rate

Banana computers has decided to procure processing chips required for its laptops from external suppliers instead of manufacturing them in their own facilities. how will this decision affect the firm? a. the firm will be protected against the principal-agent problem. b. the firm's administrative costs will be low because of necessary bureaucracy. c. the firm will have more flexibility in purchasing and comparing prices of goods and services. d. the firm will have high-powered incentives, such as hourly wages and salaries.