In the T-bill auction process, the competitive bidder is guaranteed a__________, and a noncompetitive bidder is guaranteed a__________.

You are evaluating a company’s stock. The stock just paid a dividend of $1.75. Dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate of 5 percent for a long time into the future. The required rate of return (Rs) on the stock is 12 percent. What is the fair present value?

According to the liquidity premium theory of interest rates:

You go to the Wall Street Journal and notice that yields on almost all corporate and Treasury bonds have decreased. The yield decreases may be explained by which one of the following?

A 6-year bond has a $1,000 face value and pays a 5% annual coupon. The required return is 7%. Classify the bond as premium, discount, or par and explain using the coupon rate and required return.

A financial intermediary has two assets in its investment portfolio. It has 35 percent of its security portfolio invested in one-month Treasury bills and 65 percent in real estate loans. If it liquidated the bills today, the bank would receive $98 per hundred of face value. If the real estate loans were sold today, they would be worth $85 per $100 of face value. In one month, the real estate loans could be liquidated at $94 per $100 of face value. What is the intermediary’s one-month liquidity index?

__________are online services that use algorithms to automatically perform many investment tasks done by a human financial advisor.

Which one of the following is the definition of the net interest margin?

A bank has an interest rate spread of 150 basis points on $30 million in earning assets funded by interest-bearing liabilities. However, the interest rate on its assets is fixed and the interest rate on its liabilities is variable. If all interest rates go up 50 basis points, the bank’s new pretax net interest income will be__________.

Suppose that the current one-year Treasury bill rate is 3.15 percent and the expected one-year rate 12 months from now is 4.25 percent. According to the unbiased expectations theory, what should be the current rate for a two-year Treasury security?