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Which of the following indices is typically used to measure the performance of small-company U.S. stocks?

Assume you buy 300 shares of stock at $7.60 per share on margin (41 percent). How much would you need to contribute to initiate this position?

A stock has an expected return of 10.80 percent and a beta of 1.6, and the expected return on the market is 9.00 percent. What must the risk-free rate be?

Assume the real rate of return in the economy is 3.6 percent, the expected rate of inflation is 4.9 percent, and the risk premium is 5.5 percent. Compute the required rate of return.(Be sure to give the EXACT rate, not the approximate rate).

Suppose a stock had an initial price of $83 per share, paid a dividend of $3.75 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $103. Compute the percentage total return.

Allan purchased 700 shares of stock on margin for $16.50 a share and sold the shares twelve months later for $17.80 a share. The initial margin requirement was 70 percent and the maintenance margin was 40 percent. The interest rate on the margin loan was 6.7 percent. He received no dividend income. What was his rate of return?

You short-sell 290 shares of Meadowcreek Co. now selling for $76.50 per share. If you want to limit your loss to $2,146, you should place a stop-buy order at ________.

A benchmark index has three stocks priced at $15, $78, and $33. The number of outstanding shares for each is 494,000 shares, 580,000 shares, and 304,000 shares, respectively. If the market value weighted index was 700 yesterday and the prices changed to $16.40, $81.40, and $36.80 today, what is the new index value?

Contributions to a traditional retirement plan are ________, and contributions to a Roth retirement plan are ________.