A European bond paying annual coupons of 6% offers a yield of 10% pa.
Convert the yield into an effective monthly rate, an effective annual rate and an effective daily rate. Assume that there are 365 days in a year.
All answers are given in the same order:
### r_\text{eff, monthly} , r_\text{eff, yearly} , r_\text{eff, daily} ###
A 180-day Bank Accepted Bill has a face value of $1,000,000. The interest rate is 8% pa and there are 365 days in the year. What is its price now?
A European call option will mature in ##T## years with a strike price of ##K## dollars. The underlying asset has a price of ##S## dollars.
What is an expression for the payoff at maturity ##(f_T)## in dollars from owning (being long) the call option?
A large proportion of a levered firm's assets is cash held at the bank. The firm is financed with half equity and half debt.
Which of the following statements about this firm's enterprise value (EV) and total asset value (V) is NOT correct?
The below screenshot of Microsoft's (MSFT) details were taken from the Google Finance website on 28 Nov 2014. Some information has been deliberately blanked out.
What was MSFT's backwards-looking price-earnings ratio?
Which of the following statements about option contracts is NOT correct? For every:
| 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.
Question 976 comparative advantage in trade, production possibilities curve, no explanation
Arthur and Bindi are the only people on a remote island. Their production possibility curves are shown in the graph.
Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
Question 987 interest tax shield, capital structure, debt terminology
What creates interest tax shields for a company?