You are given two risky assets. The first is a stock fund and the second is a bond fund. A T-bill fund yields a rate of 5%. The T-bill fund is a risk-free asset. The stock fund has an expected return of 23% and a standard deviation of 33%. The bond fund has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 8%. The correlation between the risky fund returns is 2%. If an investor requires the complete portfolio to return 17%, what is the portfolio weight of the optimal risky portfolio in the complete portfolio

Show the changes to the t-accounts for the federal reserve and for commercial banks when the federal reserve buys $50 million in u. s. treasury bills. if the public holds a fixed amount of currency (so that all loans create an equal amount of deposits in the banking system), the minimum reserve ratio is 10%, and banks hold no excess reserves, by how much will deposits in the commercial banks change? by how much will the money supply change? show the final changes to the t-account for commercial banks when the money supply changes by this amount.

What preforms the best over the long term? a) bonds b) mutual funds c) stocks d) certificate of deposit

Which of the following best explains how the invention of money affected the barter system? a. the invention of money supplemented the barter system by providing a nonperishable medium of exchange b. the invention of money completely replaced the barter system with a free-market system c. the invention of money had no effect on the barter system d. the invention of money drastically reduced the value of goods used in the barter system 2b2t