Ups, a delivery services company, has a beta of 1.6, and wal-mart has a beta of 0.9. the risk-free rate of interest is 6% and the market risk premium is 9%. what is the expected return on a portfolio with 40% of its money in ups and the balance in wal-mart?

(a) what do you think will happen if the price of non-gm crops continues to rise? why? (b) what will happen if the price of non-gm food drops? why?

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60

Which of the following is correct? a. a tax burden falls more heavily on the side of the market that is more elastic. b. a tax burden falls more heavily on the side of the market that is less elastic. c. a tax burden falls more heavily on the side of the market that is closer to unit elastic. d. a tax burden is distributed independently of the relative elasticities of supply and demand.