As an analyst at Churnem & Bernem Securities, you are responsible for making recommendations to your firm’s clients regarding common stocks. After gathering data on Denver Semiconductors, you have found that its dividend has been growing at a rate of 8% per year to the current (D0) $1.25 per share. You believe that an appropriate rate of return for this stock is 15% per year. If you expect that the dividend will grow at a 8% rate forever, what is the highest price at which you would recommend purchasing this stock to your clients?

If the economy were in the contracting phase of the business cycle, how might that affect your ability to find work?

The following information relates to the pina company. date ending inventory price (end-of-year prices) index december 31, 2013 $73,700 100 december 31, 2014 100,092 114 december 31, 2015 107,856 126 december 31, 2016 123,009 131 december 31, 2017 113,288 136 use the dollar-value lifo method to compute the ending inventory for pina company for 2013 through 2017.

The management of a supermarket wants to adopt a new promotional policy of giving a free gift to every customer who spends > a certain amount per visit at this supermarket. the expectation of the management is that after this promotional policy is advertised, the expenditures for all customers at this supermarket will be normally distributed with a mean of $95 and a standard deviation of $20. if the management wants to give free gifts to at most 10% of the customers, what should the amount be above which a customer would receive a free gift?