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A 67-year-old male with a history of hypertension, type 2 di…

A 67-year-old male with a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and osteoarthritis presents to the clinic reporting bilateral lower extremity swelling that began approximately six weeks ago. He states the swelling is worse at the end of the day and improves somewhat overnight with leg elevation. He denies dyspnea, orthopnea, chest pain, or paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea. On examination, bilateral 2+ pitting edema is present to the mid-calf symmetrically. The skin is warm, without erythema, hyperpigmentation, or ulceration. Lung fields are clear to auscultation bilaterally. His current medication list is as follows: metformin 1000 mg twice daily, atorvastatin 40 mg nightly, omeprazole 20 mg daily, ibuprofen 400 mg as needed, and amlodipine 10 mg daily. Which of the following medications is most likely responsible for this patient’s bilateral lower extremity edema?

Challenge You form a bond portfolio by purchasing one unit o…

Challenge You form a bond portfolio by purchasing one unit of each of the following four bonds. All bonds have just paid their most recent coupon and each has a face value of $1,000. Bond I: Remaining Maturity: [YA] years Coupon Rate: [CRA0] percent Yield to Maturity: [YTMA0] percent Bond II: Remaining Maturity: [YB] years Coupon Rate: [CRB0] percent Yield to Maturity: [YTMB0] percent Bond III: Remaining Maturity: [YC] years Coupon Rate: [CRC0] percent Yield to Maturity: [YTMC0] percent Bond IV: Remaining Maturity: [YD] years Coupon Rate: [CRD0] percent Yield to Maturity: [YTMD0] percent What is the portfolio weight of Bond IV? Enter your answer as a percentage, rounded to the nearest 0.01%.

Dale and Enzo start a corporation together. Dale contributes…

Dale and Enzo start a corporation together. Dale contributes $20,000 capital as a loan, while Enzo contributes $20,000 capital as an owner. They liquidate the corporation after one year, raising $28,000 in cash to payout to investors. Ignoring any interest on the debt, how much cash does Enzo receive?

Challenge You are a portfolio manager that holds three stock…

Challenge You are a portfolio manager that holds three stocks: ABC, DEF, and GHI. You are building a probability distribution for returns of each stock over the next year in order to forecast the standard deviation of your portfolio. Based on your research, you believe next year will have four possible states, which you label awful, normal-bad, normal-good, and great. You assume there is only a [ODD0]% chance that next year is not one of the two normal scenarios (i.e., either awful or great). You also believe the awful scenario is half as likely as the great outcome. Historically, normal-good scenarios occurred half the time, which seems to be an appropriate forecast for the probability of a normal-good scenario next year. For the normal-good returns, you use the historical (arithmetic) average returns: ABC average return = [R310] percent DEF average return = [R320] percent GHI average return = [R330] percent You forecast that normal-bad returns will be half of the normal-good returns while the great returns will be twice the normal-good returns. The awful returns will be a loss equal in magnitude to the great return.  If you put half of your money in ABC and split the remaining amount equally in DEF and GHI, what is your portfolio’s standard deviation? Enter your answer as a percentage, rounded to the nearest 0.01%. For example, enter 12.35 for 12.3456%.