You recently purchased 200 shares of stock at a cost per share of $32.50. The initial margin requirement on this stock is 75 percent and the maintenance margin is 50 percent. The stock is currently valued at $35.00 a share. What is your current margin position? Ignore margin interest. A) 74.95 percent B) 73.83 percent C) 75.69 percent D) 73.01 percent E) 76.79 percent

Helen tells her nephew, bernard, that she will pay him $100 if he will stop smoking for six months. helen was hopeful that if bernard stopped smoking for six months, he would stop altogether. bernard stops smoking for six months but then resumes his smoking. helen will not pay him. she says that the type of promise she made cannot constitute a binding contract and that, furthermore, it was at least implied that he would stop smoking for good. can bernard legally collect $100 from helen