You are planning to save for retirement over the next 35 years. To do this, you will invest $740 per month in a stock account and $340 per month in a bond account. The return of the stock account is expected to be 9.4 percent, and the bond account will pay 5.4 percent. When you retire, you will combine your money into an account with a return of 6.4 percent. How much can you withdraw each month from your account assuming a 30-year withdrawal period

When consumers discard their gasoline-powered automobiles for electric-powered ones, this partially reflects the of gasoline?

You are an employee of an u.s. firm that produces personal computers in thailand and then exports them to the united states and other countries for sale. the personal computers were originally produced in thailand to take advantage of relatively low labor costs and a skilled workforce. other possible locations considered at that time were malaysia and hong kong. the u.s. government decides to impose punitive 100% ad valorem tariffs on imports of computers from thailand to punish the country for administrative trade barriers that restrict u.s. exports to thailand. how do you think your firm should respond? what does this tell you about the use of targeted trade barriers?

Karen is working on classifying all her company’s products in terms of whether they have strong or weak market share and whether this share is in a slow or growing market. what type of strategic framework is she using?