. In one year, Hitech Microdevices will pay a common stock dividend of $4.35. You predict that you will be able to sell your Hitech stock for $57 per share after 1 year. If you require a rate of return of 16 percent on Hitech stock, how much would you be willing to pay now for a share of the stock?

The former chairman of the federal reserve, alan greenspan, used the term "irrational exuberance" in 1996 to describe the high levels of optimism among stock market investors at the time. stock market indexes such as the s& p composite price index were at an all-time high. some commentators believed that the fed should intervene to slow the expansion of the economy. why would central banks want to clamp down when the economy is growing? a. to block the formation of unsustainable speculative asset bubbles. b. to curtail excessive profits in the banking system. c. to prevent inflationary forces from gathering momentum. d. all of the above. e. a and c only.