The common stock of Glick Toys Inc. has a daily standard deviation of stock price returns of 75 basis points (0.75 percent). On a certain day, call it Day 0, Glick Toys announces the launch of a new product line. You have been asked to evaluate whether the announcement was well received by the market. You decide to take the skills you learned in Core Finance and Data Analysis and perform an event study. The expected return on the market portfolio is two basis points a day (0.02 percent). An abnormal return is considered statistically significant if it is larger than two standard deviations in absolute value. Day relative to anncment Stock Price

-4 30

-3 30.33

-2 30.48

-1 30.3

0 31.21

1 31.52

2 31.27

3 31.14

Based on the stock price movement what can you conclude about the announcement and what does it suggest about market efficiency.

You are the manager in charge of global operations at bankglobal – a large commercial bank that operates in a number of countries around the world. you must decide whether or not to launch a new advertising campaign in the u.s. market. your accounting department has provided the accompanying statement, which summarizes the financial impact of the advertising campaign on u.s. operations. in addition, you recently received a call from a colleague in charge of foreign operations, and she indicated that her unit would lose $8 million if the u.s. advertising campaign were launched. your goal is to maximize bankglobal’s value. should you launch the new campaign? explain. pre-advertising campaign post-advertising campaign total revenues $18,610,900 $31,980,200 variable cost tv airtime 5,750,350 8,610,400 ad development labor 1,960,580 3,102,450 total variable costs 7,710,930 11,712,850 direct fixed cost depreciation – computer equipment 1,500,000 1,500,000 total direct fixed cost 1,500,000 1,500,000 indirect fixed cost managerial salaries 8,458,100 8,458,100 office supplies 2,003,500 2,003,500 total indirect fixed cost $10,461,600 $10,461,600

Suppose an economy has only two sectors: goods and services. each year, goods sells 80% of its outputs to services and keeps the rest, while services sells 62% of its output to goods and retains the rest. find equilibrium prices for the annual outputs of the goods and services sectors that make each sector's income match its expenditures.

Which of the following best explains why buying a house is more beneficial than renting? a. buying is a personal investment while renting involves giving money to the landlord. b. the monthly payments on a mortgage are generally lower than rent on an apartment. c. it's easier to sell a house than it is to get a landlord to break a rental agreement. d. housing prices can go up and down quickly in comparison to the level of rents.