The multiplier for a futures contract on a stock market index is $130. The maturity of the contract is 1 year, the current level of the index is 1,960, and the risk-free interest rate is 0.4% per month. The dividend yield on the index is 0.2% per month. Suppose that after 1 month, the stock index is at 1,980. Required:
a. Find the cash flow from the mark-to-market proceeds on the contract. Assume that the parity condition always holds exactly.
b. Find the holding period return if the initial margin on the contract is $6,600.

Which of the following is a problem for the production of public goods?

In the supply-and-demand schedule shown above, at the lowest price of $50, producers supply music players and consumers demand music players.

1. descriptive statistics quickly describe large amounts of data can predict future stock returns with surprising accuracy statisticians understand non-numeric information, like colors refer mainly to patterns that can be found in data 2. a 15% return on a stock means that 15% of the original purchase price of the stock returns to the seller at the end of the year 15% of the people who purchased the stock will see a return the stock is worth 15% more at the end of the year than at the beginning the stock has lost 15% of its value since it was originally sold 3. a stock purchased on january 1 cost $4.35 per share. the same stock, sold on december 31 of the same year, brought in $4.75 per share. what was the approximate return on this stock? 0.09% 109% 1.09% 9% 4. a stock sells for $6.99 on december 31, providing the seller with a 6% annual return. what was the price of the stock at the beginning of the year? $6.59 $1.16 $7.42 $5.84