A four year bond has a face value of $100, a yield of 6% and a fixed coupon rate of 12%, paid semi-annually. What is its price?
A stock is expected to pay the following dividends:
Cash Flows of a Stock | ||||||
Time (yrs) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ... |
Dividend ($) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 3 | ... |
After year 4, the dividend will grow in perpetuity at 4% pa. The required return on the stock is 10% pa. Both the growth rate and required return are given as effective annual rates.
What is the current price of the stock?
Discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation prices assets by finding the present value of the asset's future cash flows. The single cash flow, annuity, and perpetuity equations are very useful for this.
Which of the following equations is the 'perpetuity with growth' equation?
Which of the following statements about option contracts is NOT correct? For every:
A firm has a debt-to-assets ratio of 20%. What is its debt-to-equity ratio?
Which of the below formulas gives the profit ##(\pi)## from being short a call option? Let the underlying asset price at maturity be ##S_T##, the exercise price be ##X_T## and the option price be ##f_{LC,0}##. Note that ##S_T##, ##X_T## and ##f_{LC,0}## are all positive numbers.
Alice, Bob, Chris and Delta are traders in the futures market. The following trades occur over a single day in a newly-opened equity index future that matures in one year which the exchange just made available.
1. Alice buys a future from Bob.
2. Chris buys a future from Delta.
3. Alice buys a future from Chris.
These were the only trades made in this equity index future. What was the trading volume and what is the open interest?
Which of the below statements about utility is NOT generally accepted by economists? Most people are thought to:
A stock, a call, a put and a bond are available to trade. The call and put options' underlying asset is the stock they and have the same strike prices, ##K_T##.
Being long the call and short the stock is equivalent to being:
Major City Apartment Prices | |||
One bedroom, one bathroom, around 55 square metre floor space, Dec 2018 | |||
City | Advertised price | Currency | FX quote |
London, Great Britain | 995,500 | GBP | 1.3 USD per GBP |
Paris, France | 639,000 | EUR | 0.88 USD per EUR |
San Francisco, USA | 859,000 | USD | 1 USD per USD |
Shanghai, China | 6,300,000 | RMB | 6.9 RMB per USD |
Sydney, Australia | 670,000 | AUD | 0.72 USD per AUD |
Tokyo, Japan | 50,800,000 | JPY | 112 JPY per USD |
Which city has the most expensive apartment, measured in United States Dollars (USD)? Pay attention to the FX quotes.