You will be graduating soon and have been offered what you consider the job of your dreams. The new position, however, requires some traveling so you will need a car. You currently do not have one. Briefly explain your action/s in the fourth stage based on the five stages of the consumer purchase decision process based on your decision to buy a car to commute to work. (You must describe what you would do in this stage as a customer). Describe what you know about the term evaluative criteria and consideration set.

The treasurer for pittsburgh iron works wishes to use financial futures to hedge her interest rate exposure. she will sell five treasury futures contracts at $139,000 per contract. it is july and the contracts must be closed out in december of this year. long-term interest rates are currently 7.30 percent. if they increase to 9.50 percent, assume the value of the contracts will go down by 20 percent. also if interest rates do increase by 2.2 percent, assume the firm will have additional interest expense on its business loans and other commitments of $149,000. this expense, of course, will be separate from the futures contracts. a. what will be the profit or loss on the futures contract if interest rates increase to 9.50 percent by december when the contract is closed out

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Storico co. just paid a dividend of $3.15 per share. the company will increase its dividend by 20 percent next year and then reduce its dividend growth rate by 5 percentage points per year until it reaches the industry average of 5 percent dividend growth, after which the company will keep a constant growth rate forever. if the required return on the company’s stock is 12 percent, what will a share of stock sell for today?