At your discount brokerage firm, it costs $9.95 per stock trade. How much money do you need to buy 200 shares of General Electric(GE), which trades at $45.19? $9, 038.00 $4528.95 $9, 047.95 $4, 595.95 Bond prices and interest rate changes A 5.5 percent coupon bond with 18 years left to maturity is priced to offer a 6.25 percent yield to maturity. You believe that in one year, the yield to maturity will be 5.75 percent. What is the change in price the bond will experience in dollars? (Assume semi-annual interest payments and $1,000 per value.) $25.00 $26.89 $53.48 $80.37 Which of the following makes this a true statement: The shape of the efficient frontier implies that diminishing returns apply to risk-taking in the investment world. Increasing returns apply to risk-taking in the investment world. returns are not impacted by risk-taking in the investment world. None of these complete the sentence to make it true. To increase the liquidity for the home mortgage market, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchased home mortgages from banks and other lenders. They combined the mortgages into diversified portfolios of loans issued______. Trust securities Mortgage-backed securities Current yield securities Treasury inflation Protected Securities Expected Return Home Depot(HD) recently paid a $0.90 dividend. The dividend is expected to grow at a 17 percent rate. At the current stock price of $33.08, what is the return shareholders are expecting? 2.70% 17.03% 17.18% 20.18%