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him to put a down payment of 20% of the value of the house. The loan terms are as follows:
Interest rate on the loan 1.8% a year for the first two years and then the rate will be 3-month SIBOR + 0.5 percent. This rate will be adjusted every 3 months after the first two years. The loan period will be 15 years. If loan is approved, the monthly payments will start from September 1, 2012
(a) Calculate the monthly payment on September 1, 2012.

(b) If the SIBOR rate is expected to be 1.2% on September 1, 2014, calculate the revised monthly payment on September 1, 2014.
carrington holdings is considering two mutually exclusive projects which requred an initial outlay of usd165,000 for project Alpha and usd150,000 for project Beta. the cost of capital is 12%. below are expected cash flows for two project. Alpha years 1. 46600 2.52000 3.65000 4.50000 5.60000 . Beta years 1 - 5 is 42200 . i) calculate the internal rate of return for project beta only ii) calculate the payback period and net present value for both projects. tq
Valdes Enterprises is considering issuing a 10-year convertible bond that would be priced at its $1,000 par value. The bonds would have an 8.00% annual coupon, and each bond could be converted into 20 shares of common stock. The required rate of return on an otherwise similar nonconvertible bond is 10.00%. The stock currently sells for $40.00 a share, has an expected dividend in the coming year of $2.00, and has an expected constant growth rate of 5.00%. What is the estimated floor price of the convertible at the end of Year 3?
Spreadsheets are useful for computing statistics: averages, standard deviation, variance, and correlation are included as built-in functions. Below is recent monthly stock return data for ExxonMobil (XOM) and Microsoft (MSFT). Using a spreadsheet and its functions, compute the average, variance, standard deviation, and correlation between the returns for these stocks. What does the correlation between the returns imply for a portfolio
containing both stocks?
D. Butler Inc. needs to raise $14 million. Assuming that the market price of the firm's stock is $95, and flotation costs are 10% of the market price, how many shares would have to be issued? What is the dollar size of the issue?
•Recommend three policy changes that would make the Federal Reserve’s job of controlling U.S. interest rates easier. Explain your reasoning.
Suppose that the federal government budget deficit is going to increase at the (constant) annual rate of 1 trillion US dollars. If the total deficit at the beginning of this class is 12.4 trillion, plot the deficit as a function of time for the duration (2 h = 120 min).
Based on the corporate valuation model, the value of a company's operations is $900 million. Its balance sheet shows $70 million in accounts receivable, $50 million in inventory, $30 million in short-term investments that are unrelated to operations, $20 million in accounts payable, $110 million in notes payable, $90 million in long-term debt, $20 million in preferred stock, $140 million in retained earnings, and $280 million in total common equity. If the company has 25 million shares of stock outstanding, what is the best estimate of the stocks price per share?

a. $23.00
b. $25.56
c. $28.40
d. $31.24
e. $34.36

PLEASE show calculations. I have seen a wide variety of answers to this and they are all different.
11. The One Product economy, which produces and sells only personal computers (PCs), expects that it can sell 500 more, or 12,500 PCs, next year. Nominal GDP was $20 million this year, and the money supply was $7 million. The central bank for the One Product economy plans to increase the money supply by 10 percent next year.
a. What was the average selling price for the personal computers this year? M1/unit $7million/12,500 =560
b. What is the expected average selling price next year for personal computers if the velocity of money remains at this year’s turnover rate? What percentage change in price level is expected to occur? $7million/10%= 7.7 million, 7.7 million/12,500=616, 616-560=56/560=.10
c. If the objective is to keep the price level the same next year (i.e., no inflation), what percentage increase in the money supply should the central bank plan for?
d. How would your answer in (c) change if the velocity of money is expected to be three times next year? What is it now?
the abc big oil company is considering two mutually exclusive plans for extracting oil on property for which it has mineral rights. both plans call for the expenditure of $10mm to drill development wells. under plan a, all the oil will be extracted in 1 year, producing a cash flow at t=1 of $12mm, while plan b would have cash flows of $1.75mm per year for 20 years.

a) What are the annual incremental cash flows that will be available to the firm if it undertakes Plan B rather than Plan A?

b) If the firm accepts Plan A, and then invests the extra cash generated at the end of year 1, what rate of return (reinvestment rate) would cause the cash flows from reinvestment to equal the cash flows of Plan B?
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