You are holding a stock that has a beta of 1.98 and is currently in equilibrium. The required return on the stock is 23.29%, and the return on the market portfolio is 15.10%. What would be the new required return on the stock if the return on the market increased to 18.00% while the risk-free rate and beta remained unchanged?

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)