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Trendsetters has a cost of equity of 14.6 percent. The market risk premium is 8.1 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.9 percent. The company is acquiring a competitor, which will increase the company's beta to 1.4. What effect, if any, will the acquisition have on the firm's cost of equity capital? Increase of 64 percent (B) Decrease of .84 percent No effect (D) Increase of 1.06 percent Increase of 13 percent