Which legal provision is acting as a hurdle in Karen’s business expansion? Karen owns a designer clothing store in a small town. Since her store is the only store that offers designer outfits, she charges high prices for them. In the same town, another store deals in similar apparels but offers them at cheaper rates. Karen wants to maintain the exclusivity of her store. She is planning to slash prices. This move may incur losses. However, she is determined to give a tough competition to her competing store and ensure that it goes out of business. Karen can come under government scrutiny for her monopolistic practices under .

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?