Rossdale Co. stock currently sells for $72.21 per share and has a beta of 1.19. The market risk premium is 7.40 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.02 percent annually. The company just paid a dividend of $4.17 per share, which it has pledged to increase at an annual rate of 3.75 percent indefinitely. What is your best estimate of the company's cost of equity

The former chairman of the federal reserve, alan greenspan, used the term "irrational exuberance" in 1996 to describe the high levels of optimism among stock market investors at the time. stock market indexes such as the s& p composite price index were at an all-time high. some commentators believed that the fed should intervene to slow the expansion of the economy. why would central banks want to clamp down when the economy is growing? a. to block the formation of unsustainable speculative asset bubbles. b. to curtail excessive profits in the banking system. c. to prevent inflationary forces from gathering momentum. d. all of the above. e. a and c only.