L & J purchased common shares of Company A and B for $10,000 and $9,000, respectively on 12/15. L & J intends to sell these securities within 30 days. At 12/31, Investments in Company A & B had a fair value of $9,000 and $15,000, respectively. L & J does not have significant influence over the investees. Assuming an existing $1,100 credit balance in Fair Value Adjustment - Equity Investments, what is the unrealized gain or loss for these securities and how is it reported?

Three pounds of material a are required for each unit produced. the company has a policy of maintaining a stock of material a on hand at the end of each quarter equal to 30% of the next quarter's production needs for material a. a total of 35,000 pounds of material a are on hand to start the year. budgeted purchases of material a for the second quarter would be:

Suppose there is a 6 percent increase in the price of good x and a resulting 6 percent decrease in the quantity of x demanded. price elasticity of demand for x is a. 0 b. 6 c. 1 d. 36

Suppose that fixed costs for a firm in the automobile industry (start-up costs of factories, capital equipment, and so on) are $5 billion and that variable costs are equal to $17,000 per finished automobile. because more firms increase competition in the market, the market price falls as more firms enter an automobile market, or specifically, , where n represents the number of firms in a market. assume that the initial size of the u. s. and the european automobile markets are 300 million and 533 million people, respectively. a. calculate the equilibrium number of firms in the u. s. and european automobile markets without trade. b. what is the equilibrium price of automobiles in the united states and europe if the automobile industry is closed to foreign trade? c. now suppose that the united states decides on free trade in automobiles with europe. the trade agreement with the europeans adds 533 million consumers to the automobile market, in addition to the 300 million in the united states. how many automobile firms will there be in the united states and europe combined? what will be the new equilibrium price of automobiles? d. why are prices in the united states different in (c) and (b)? are consumers better off with free trade? in what ways?