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Use the following information to answer the question(s) below. Consider the following four alternatives: 1. $132 to be received two years from now.2. $160 to be received five years from now. 3. $200 to be received eight years from now. 4. $220 to be received ten years from now. The ranking of the four alternatives from most valuable to least valuable if the interest rate is 7% per year would be:

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A capital market instrument is used by a company to raise long-term funds.

Since your first birthday, your grandparents have been depositing $1000 into a savings account on every one of your birthdays. The account pays 5% interest annually. Immediately after your grandparents make the deposit on your 16th birthday, the amount of money in your savings account will be closest to:

You are an analyst for Northington Berlin (NBI).  You have gathered the returns for the stock and the S&P 500 and need to calculate beta to complete your analysis.  Given the returns below, the beta of NBI is closest to: NBI S&P 2013 12.80% 8.25% 2014 18.20% 6.45% 2015 -12.50% -4.50% 2016 10.25% 4.38% 2017 3.75% 8.55%

Which of the following is NOT a situation where a trader is able to identify positive NPV trading opportunities in the securities markets?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ are ___________ and _____________ , respectively.

Credit Unions are not considered depository institutions because they have members instead of customers.

When we express the value of a cash flow or series of cash flows in terms of dollars today, we call it the ________ of the investment. If we express it in terms of dollars in the future, we call it the ________.

Benefactor Cumbersome has $15 million in debt with a cost of 4%, $5 million in preferred stock with a cost of 6%, and $50 million in equity with a cost of 10%.  If the tax rate is 21%, the weighted average cost of capital is closest to: