The balance sheet of XYZ Bank appears below. All figures in millions of US Dollars. Assets Liabilities Short-term consumer loans (1-year maturity) $150 Equity capital (fixed) $120 Long-term consumer loans 125 Demand deposits (2-year maturity) 40 3-month T-Bills 130 Passbook savings 130 6-month T-Notes 135 3-month CDs 140 3-year T-Bond 170 3-month Bankers Acceptances 120 10-year Fixed Rate Mortgages 120 6-month Commercial paper 160 30-year Floating Rate Mortgages (rate adjusted every 9-months) 140 1-year Time deposits 120 2-year Time deposits 40 $970 $970 The gap ratio is

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

Win goods inc. is a large multinational conglomerate. as a single business unit, the company's stock price is estimated to be $200. however, by adding the actual market stock prices of each of its individual business units, the stock price of the company as one unit would be $300. what is win goods experiencing in this scenario? a. diversification discount b. learning-curveeffects c. experience-curveeffects d. economies of scale

Which of the following businesses is most likely to disrupt an existing industry? a. closer connex developed an earphone that receives emails and text messages and converts them to voice messages. the first models had poor reception, but they rapidly improved over time. b. mega technologies reconfigured the components used in its touchscreen tablets to create a new type of wearable device for use in restaurants and other service industries. c. particle inc. developed a teleportation technology that can transport physical materials instantaneously across great distances. d. altrea added advanced camera technology to its premium line of smartphones so that they would take the highest-quality photos of all phones on the market.