On june 30, 20x1, after paying the semiannual interest due and recording amortization of bond discount, hake redeemed its 15-year, 8% $1,000,000 par bonds at 102. hake has a policy to redeem bonds when it is advantageous to do so. the bonds, which had a carrying amount of $940,000 on january 1, 20x1, had originally been issued to yield 10%. hake used the effective interest method of amortization and paid interest and recorded amortization on june 30. compute the amount of gain or loss on the redemption of the bonds.

How supply and demand work together to reach the equilibrium price in the marketplace? give at least a paragraph. you!

Consider the following limit order book for a share of stock. the last trade in the stock occurred at a price of $50. limit buy orders limit sell orders price shares price shares $49.75 500 $49.80 100 49.70 900 49.85 100 49.65 700 49.90 300 49.60 400 49.95 100 48.65 600 a. if a market buy order for 100 shares comes in, at what price will it be filled? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) b. at what price would the next market buy order be filled? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) c. if you were a security dealer, would you want to increase or decrease your inventory of this stock? increase decrease

Bill dukes has $100,000 invested in a 2-stock portfolio. $62,500 is invested in stock x and the remainder is invested in stock y. x's beta is 1.50 and y's beta is 0.70. what is the portfolio's beta? do not round your intermediate calculations. round the final answer to 2 decimal places.