You are holding call options on a stock. The stock’s beta is 0.64, and you are concerned that the stock market is about to fall. The stock is currently selling for $9 and you hold 1 million options on the stock (i. e., you hold 10,000 contracts for 100 shares each). The option delta is 0.70. How much of the market-index portfolio must you buy or sell to hedge your market exposure? (Enter your answer in dollar not in millions.)

The link between volume of production and the cost of building manufacturing operations is particularly important in industries characterized byanswers: process innovations.product manufacturing.product innovation.process manufacturing.

Apharmaceutical packaging company (ppc) has decided to reorganize its processes into cells. the company has four different production operations, each requiring a unique piece of equipment. the names and functions of the four pieces of equipment are sort, count, place, and package. the company packages five different families of products (a, b, c, d, and e). the tables below indicate the demand (total units/day by product family), required operations, and operation cycle times for each product family. assume that any individual piece of equipment is available to operate 16 hours/day, but 2 hours (in total) are lost each day on each piece of equipment due to breaks and meetings when operators are not available to operate the equipment. how many minutes/day are available for production

Schonhardt corporation's relevant range of activity is 2,500 units to 5,500 units. when it produces and sells 4,000 units, its average costs per unit are as follows: averagecost per unitdirect materials $ 7.60direct labor $ 2.90variable manufacturing overhead $ 1.65fixed manufacturing overhead $ 2.90fixed selling expense $ 0.95fixed administrative expense $ 0.65sales commissions $ 0.75variable administrative expense $ 0.65if 4,500 units are produced, the total amount of fixed manufacturing cost incurred is closest to: multiple choicea $16,800b $11,400c $11,600d $15,400