McDuck Inc.'s bonds currently sell for $1,275. They pay a $80 annual coupon, have a 25-year maturity, and a $1,000 par value, but they can be called in 4 years at $1,150. Compute the Yield to Call. (State as a percent, but do not include the percent sign and round to the second decimal place. Thus, 9.8765% would be written as 9.88 to be correct)

The outstanding bonds of the purple fiddle are priced at $898 and mature in nine years. these bonds have a 6 percent coupon and pay interest annually. the firm's tax rate is 35 percent. what is the firm's after tax cost of debt?

Suppose that hubert, an economist from an am talk radio program, and kate, an economist from a nonprofit organization on the west coast, are arguing over government bailouts. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: kate: to recent financial crises, the concept of bailouts is a hot topic for debate among everyone these days. hubert: indeed, it’s gotten crazy! a government bailout of severely distressed financial firms is unnecessary because free markets will properly price assets. kate: i don’t know about that. without a bailout of severely distressed financial firms, the economy will experience a deep recession. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due todifferences in scientific judgments . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? business managers can raise profit more easily by reducing costs than by raising revenue. central banks should focus more on maintaining low unemployment than on maintaining low inflation. employers should not be restricted from outsourcing work to foreign nations

Suppose that the u. s. dollars-mexican pesos exchange rate is fixed by the u. s. and mexican governments. assume also that labor is mobile between the united states and mexico due to low transportation costs. which of the following situations is likely to happen as a result of a simultaneous increase in the demand for u. s. goods and decrease in the demand for mexican goods? (pick mexican unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained u. s. unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but it soon drops as unemployed mexicans move to the united states for mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but then it drops as mexican pesos depreciate against u. s. dollars.