ACF 504: FINANCIAL MARKETS Coursework Assignment II GROUP 20 Definition of the Dataset (Word Count 1938) The dataset used in this report is derived from Thomson ONE Banker. The spreadsheet in Appendix contains the daily price of the TESCO and the FTSE All Share index during the period from 1 December 2014 to 30 November 2015. Each closing price includes 254 observations. We obtain 253 daily returns of the TESCO and 253 daily returns of FTSE index after calculating daily simple returns
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BSBADM504 Plan and implement administrative systems Project 1 Part 1 IGA is U.S. brand of grocery stores that operates in more than 30 countries. Unlike the chain store business model, IGA operates as a franchise through stores that are owned separately from the brand. Many of these stores operate in small town markets and belong to families that manage them. It was founded in the United States as the Independent Grocers Alliance. The headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois. Recordkeeping system
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20 Table 21 Table 22 Table 23 Table 24 Content DCF Analysis Variables Regression Analysis WACC Calculations Payback Period Depreciation Call Option - NYSE Call Option - S&P 500 Put Option - NYSE Put Option - S&P 500 Sell A Call - NYSE Sell A Call - S&P 500 Sell A Put - NYSE Sell A Put - S&P 500 Covered Call - NYSE Covered Call - S&P 500 Protective Put - NYSE Protective Put - S&P 500 Protective Collar - NYSE Protective Collar - S&P 500 Long Straddle - NYSE Long Straddle
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Subject: RE: Today's Conference Call Message: Hi Mike, I apologize if there was any miscommunication. I’ve checked my calendar and I did not have the conference call noted. I’d be happy to visit with you any time today so that we can get this finalized. Are you available at 11:00am? Thank you for your flexibility and understanding. I look forward to talking to you later today. Please reply with the requested information or to set up another conference call. Message 4 Sender: To: Blake
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In some ways, the culture of Enron was the primary cause of the collapse. The senior executives believed Enron had to be the best at everything it did and that they had to protect their reputations and their compensation as the most successful executives in the U.S. When some of their business and trading ventures began to perform poorly, they tried to cover up their own failures. Management was compensated extensively using stock options. This policy of stock option awards caused management to
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value for the volatility is 0.3689. Now we have all the data to calculate the current fair value of the stock options offered to Sally: Option Price P 23 Exercise price X 35 Current Stock Price S 18.75 Risk-Free Rate r 4.07% Maturity of the call T 5 Volatility Delta 0.368958192 d1 0.369407882 d2 -0.988822938 C0 (Black-Scholes) 7.468518841 The total value of the stock options offered to sally is: #Stock Options 3000 Value of the options 22405.55652 The fair
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Demand and Supply model Looking into the demand and supply model we can try to get a grasp of how we perceive the S&P 500. You can stare at the stock market all day trying to figure out which is better and why it is that this particular company outsells the other but you can fit all of these companies into a neat little box. In this assignment we will talk about market power, competitive market, and strategy as well as how prices and incentives affect the company. I have selected several
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types of barrier options that have slightly different payoff structures. These options can all be written as either puts or calls. When barrier options are sold they are created with a specified expiration date, a strike price and a barrier price. * Down-and-Out Barrier Options: A down-and-out option gives the holder the right but not the obligation to buy (in the case of a call) or sell (in the case of a put) shares of an underlying asset at a pre-determined strike price so long as the price of
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Hull 2011 1 Review of Option Types • A call is an option to buy • A put is an option to sell • A European option can be exercised only at the end of its life • An American option can be exercised at any time 2 Derivatives - Options Give the holder the right to buy or sell the underlying at a certain date for a certain price. (European options) • • • • • Right to buy call option Right to sell put option Payoff function: call: C(T)= max{S(T)-K, 0}, put: P(T)=max{K-S(T),0}
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hospital came face to face with a major crisis when Mel Greig and Michael Christian, hosts of commercial radio station 2Day FM made a prank call to acquire confidential information of one of its patron at the time, Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. The suicide of Jacintha Saldanha surfaced three days after being the first person to receive the hoax phone call before passing it to the duchess’ private nurse. This essay aims to highlight the ethical implications involved in this case study, the PR
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