The chief financial planner in our office wants to promote a new conservative income producing investment vehicle. His 2.00% forecast of bonds he considers to be quite stable. However, the 6.17% forecast for REITs may vary down by 2.69% and up by 2.18%. The corporate forecast for NYSE dividends is given to us as 2.04%, but he considers a more reasonable yields to be lower by 0.50% with a worst case scenario lower by a total of 0.75%. Finally our NASDAQ estimated yield is 1.61% with a possible increase of 0.09% and a decrease of 0.00%. What is the best-case scenario for the average yield of this portfolio assuming all four items are weighted equally

Arapid increase in the population of a city or town is most likely to lead to which of the following? a. higher-paying jobs. b. low housing prices. c. a seller's market. d. a drop in population density. 2b2t

San ruiz interiors provides design services to residential and commercial clients. the residential services produce a contribution margin of $450,000 and have traceable fixed operating costs of $480,000. management is studying whether to drop the residential operation. if closed, the fixed operating costs will fall by $370,000 and san ruiz’ income will

Suppose general motors demands labor according to the labor demand function 푤푤= 40−0. 5퐸퐸, where 푤푤 is the hourly wage and 퐸퐸 is the number of employees. the united auto workers union has a utility function given by 푈푈=푊푊∗퐸퐸. a. in 1984, the united auto workers union started negotiations with general motors by assuming that they were a monopoly union. find the wage and employment demands that the united auto workers union would have demanded before any bargaining began. b. if general motors and the united auto workers union both had excellent bargaining representatives, would this be the final labor contract? if not, then explain in words and graphically where they would end up after the bargaining process.