You bought PG stock at $15 per share. Your losses could be minimized by placing a

limit-sell order

limit-buy order

stop-buy order

day-order

None of the options are correct

The bid ask spread

is the difference between the 10-years rate and the tw-years rate

is the difference between the bid price and the ask price

is the difference between the ask price and the bid price

constitutes part of trading cost

C and D

You want to purchase EEM stock at $40 from your broker using as little of your own money as possible. If initial margin is 60% and you have $7,200 to invest, how many shares can you buy?

180 shares

300 shares

360 shares

150 shares

You sold short 500 shares of common stock at $30 per share. The initial margin is 50% and the maintenance margin is 30%. Your initial investment is

$4,500

$15,000

$5,600

$7,500

The following is not an instrument for monetary policy

Changing percentage of reserves (deposits) that banks and thrifts must hold in cash or in deposits at the Federal Reserve.

the interest rate charged to the commercial banks and other financial institutions for the loans they take from the Fed

an open market operation by the Fed

The process of issueing paper currency by the US Treasury Dpartment

You purchased a share of stock for $50. One year later you received $2.5 as a dividend and sold the share for $54. Your holding-period return is ?

0.05

0.08

0.13

0.14

None of the above

You have been given this probability distribution for the holding-period return for EEM stock: You invest $100 in the stock F126:H129. The expected return on your investmenst is

10.00%

7.50%

15.00%

4.00%