If an investor is in a 37 percent marginal tax bracket and can purchase a straight (nonmunicipal) bond at 7.70 percent and a municipal bond at 4.19 percent, compute the after-tax yield on the fully-taxable (i.e. nonmunicipal) bond.

Based on the following information, what is the standard deviation on an equally weighted portfolio of these three stocks?State of Probability of   Rate of Return if State OccursEconomy State of Economy  Stock A Stock B Stock CBoom          0.30                     0.12    0.33    0.06Bust            0.70                   –0.24  –0.12  –0.21

Which is not one of the Brainstorming techniques students have been encourage to utilize in this Course?

A portfolio is composed of two stocks, A and B. Stock A has a standard deviation of return of 19%, while stock B has a standard deviation of return of 30%. The correlation coefficient between the returns on A and B is 0.80. Stock A comprises 33% of the portfolio, while stock B comprises 67% of the portfolio. The standard deviation of the return on this portfolio is ________.

Bonds rated ________ or better (i.e. higher) by Standard & Poor’s are considered investment grade.

An increase in a bond’s yield to maturity results in a price decline that is ________ the price increase resulting from a decrease in yield of equal magnitude.

A stock with which one of the following betas has an expected return that most resembles the overall market expected rate of return?

True or False: The Interpretation step of the Writing Process is perhaps the most important because if a student misunderstands it, the rest of the steps will be negatively impacted.

Based on the following information, what is the standard deviation on an equally weighted portfolio of these three stocks?State of Probability of   Rate of Return if State OccursEconomy State of Economy  Stock A Stock B Stock CBoom           0.35                    0.15    0.33     0.18Bust             0.65                  –0.30  –0.21   –0.06

Which one of the following will decrease the current yield of a bond?