put options on Lotus’s common stock that mature in February 1994 and that have an exercise price of $55 per share. a. Compute net profits and losses per share (actual dollar profit and losses‚ not rates of return) at expiration (February 19‚ 1994) for the following investment strategies: Buying a call option on Lotus’s stock; Writing a call option on Lotus’s common stock; Buying a put option on Lotus’s common stock; Writing a put option on Lotus’s common stock. Hint: Start by calculating the
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people to stereotype and draw conclusions based on a few indicators where the results can be quite different. For example in a stock market‚ people will often make decisions by comparing stocks of a similar industry. If companies in the industry have an overall poor performance‚ people will judge the companies as unexciting and have no prospects. Thus‚ any stocks of that industry will be assumed to be of poor performance. This may not be true and this stereotyping of information will lead to
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questions. Mark only one answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the sheet provided. STRICLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil no. 1 only. CASE 1: STOCK INVESTMENT IN SAN MIGUEL 1. The Stock Investment showed the following details during year 2008 STOCK INVESTMENT IN SAN MIGUEL Debit Credit Jan. 1 Audited balance 4‚000shares P80‚000 Feb. 28 Cash dividend 2‚000 Mar. 31 Bought shares 9‚000 Apr. 1
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Declining Fish Stock One major problem we are facing as a country is the rapid decline in several different species of fish in the ocean. Some specialist have actually looked into this to determine the cause for the decline in fish in the ocean. One of the major causes is that some species of fish are being fished more than others. It is even stated that more fish than the species are being able to actually reproduce. This alone could eventually lead some of the species into extinction. This is
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Stock-Trak Portfolio Analysis Portfolio management is a tactic used by not only those in the financial sector of the business world‚ but also by individual’s managing their own personal finances. Therefore‚ it important to develop and implement investment strategies in order to gain the most on a portfolio – be it as a mutual fund manager or an individual planning for retirement. Tools such as Stock-Trak‚ an online portfolio simulation‚ allow students to gain hands on experience testing different
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A trillion-dollar industry is based on investing in or benchmarking to capitalization-weighted indexes‚ even though the finance literature rejects the mean–variance efficiency of such indexes. This study investigates whether stock market indexes based on an array of cap-indifferent measures of company size are more mean–variance efficient than those based on market cap. These “Fundamental” indexes were found to deliver consistent‚ significant benefits relative to standard cap-weighted indexes
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Golden Finger or Fat Finger ----Evaluation of the reliability in stock trading system SYSEN5300 Project Proposal Sep 25‚ 2013 Yicheng Huang Yuhong Ding Anuj Gautam Introduction and Statement of the project The stock trading system is always connoted as ‘Golden Finger’ for its amazing speed and striking efficiency to achieve the money snowballing in the stock market. High returns come with high risks. The reliability of the whole trading system is the key point deciding whether the
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Business Organization Joint – Stock Company An Entrepreneur or business owner will sell stock to investors‚ and in return‚ promise the investors a percentage of the company’s profits‚ based on how much stock they buy. We see this in larger businesses in the US‚ most notably during the market crash we experienced a couple years ago. Independent investors as well as other companies bought and shared stock with many of the big banking corporations‚ since the bands values began to drop‚ shareholders
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Sheet1 RANK 1 2 3 4 PARTICIPANT NAME COLLEGE NITIN GAJANAN MALUSARE JANARDAN INSTITUTE GIRISH MAHESHKUMAR SAVLANI K S BUSINESS SCHOOL PRATEEK GOVILA BIT MESRA PUNE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF KISHAN BHATTAD MANAGEMENT SCIENCES (PUMBA) CITY MUMBAI AHMEDABAD RANCHI PUNE PORTFOLIO 1666999.9 1666553.6 1666432.5 1662356.05 TURNOVER 16935103.38 19998020 19946293.4 0 % GAIN 11.13% 5.67% 9.36% 0.00% Basis highest % change in profit compared to the previous day portfolio COMMENTS REMARKS 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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information in GM Exhibit 1 and its stock price in GM Exhibit 2‚ when do you first see signs of GM’s impending financial distress? The sign of GM’s impending financial distress is first seen in 2005. GM reported a net loss of more than $10 billion and has continued to post annual losses since that time with losses reaching almost $31 billion in 2008. GM’s cash flow from operations in 2005 was a negative $16.8 billion. Reviewing GM’s stock price‚ we can see that the stock price also decreased dramatically
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