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(a) $10

(b) $3

(c) $2.8037

(d) $2.7273

(e) $0

(a) $294,117.65

(b) $993,467.61

(c) $993,694.40

(d) $3,400,000.00

(e) $11,550,632.91

(a) ## r-g ##

(b) ## \dfrac{d_1}{p_0} ##

(c) ## \dfrac{d_5}{p_4} ##

(d) ## \dfrac{d_5(1+g)^2}{p_6} ##

(e) ## \dfrac{d_3}{p_0(1+r)^2} ##

(a) Short sellers benefit from price falls.

(b) To short sell, you must borrow the asset from person A and sell it to person B, then later on buy an identical asset from person C and return it to person A.

(c) Short selling only works for assets that are 'fungible' which means that there are many that are identical and substitutable, such as shares and bonds and unlike real estate.

(d) An investor who short-sells an asset has a negative weight in that asset.

(e) An investor who short-sells an asset is said to be 'long' that asset.

The "interest expense" on a company's annual income statement is equal to the cash interest payments (but not principal payments) made to debt holders during the year. or ?

(a) ##\pi_{LC}=max⁡(S_T-X_T,0) + f_{LC,0}##

(b) ##\pi_{LC}=max⁡(X_T-S_T,0) + f_{LC,0}##

(c) ##\pi_{LC}=-max⁡(S_T-X_T,0) + f_{LC,0}##

(d) ##\pi_{LC}=max⁡(X_T-S_T,0) - f_{LC,0}##

(e) ##\pi_{LC}=max(S_T-X_T,0) - f_{LC,0}##

(a) 2% pa.

(b) 2.6% pa.

(c) 3.4% pa.

(d) 4% pa.

(e) 4.6% pa.

(a) The firm currently has 3m shares on issue and will need to sell 2m new shares in the rights issue.

(b) The company should do a 2-for-3 rights issue.

(c) After the rights issue the market share price will be $17.

(d) The value of one right would be $3.

(e) If you don't take part in the rights issue and it is non-renounceable, you will lose $2 per share.

(a) The option’s expected future continuously compounded returns are always more than or equal to the underlying stock’s expected future continuously compounded returns.

(b) The option’s standard deviation of dollar price changes is always less than or equal to the underlying stock’s standard deviation of dollar price changes.

(c) The option’s standard deviation of continuously compounded returns are always less than or equal to the underlying stock’s standard deviation of continuously compounded returns.

(d) As time elapses and the maturity date of an option approaches, its price will fall, all other things remaining equal.

(e) If the underlying stock’s price rises by $0.01, the call option’s price will rise by less than $0.01 and the put option’s price will fall by less than $0.01.

(a) $13,214.7887

(b) $1,268.2418

(c) $1,240

(d) $806.4516

(e) $788.4932