Consider a bond with coupon rate 5.5% maturing 12/31/2008, trading at 100:18 for settlement 06/30/2006. Assume you purchase the bond on 06/30/2006 and you sell it on 12/31/2007. If the semi-annual reinvestment rate of the coupon payment is 3% and the semi-annual yield on 12/31/2007 for this bond is 2%, what is the semi-annual rate of return on your holding of this bond? A. Between 2.5% and 3.5% B. Smaller than 1.5% C. Between 1.5% and 2.5% D. Larger than 3.5%

Visburg concrete company pours concrete slabs for single-family dwellings. lancing construction company, which operates outside visburg's normal sales territory, asks visburg to pour 40 slabs for lancing's new development of homes. visburg has the capacity to build 300 slabs and is presently working on 250 of them. lancing is willing to pay only $3, 300 per slab. visburg estimates the cost of a typical job to include unit-level materials, $1, 440: unit-level labor, $720: and an allocated portion of facility-level overhead, $1, 200. required calculate the contribution to profit from the special order. should visburg accept or reject the special order to pour 40 slabs for $3, 300 each?

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Suppose that in an economy the structural unemployment rate is 2.2 percent, the natural unemployment rate is 5.3 percent, and the cyclical unemployment rate is 2 percent. the frictional unemployment rate is percent and the actual unemployment rate (in this economy) is percent.