John got a part time weekend job at a local restaurant to save for a new car. He plans on depositing $120 per month for the next 4 years in a savings account with a rate of 4% per year compounded monthly. How much will he have saved toward his down payment at the end of the 4 year period?

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.