Suppose that increases in the money supply lead to a rise in stock prices. should you go out and buy stocks? a. you should buy stocks because you can expect to earn more than the equilibrium return on stocks by acting on the money supply information. b. you should buy stocks because the increase in the money supply should increase stock prices. c. you should not buy stocks because the rise in the money supply is publicly available information that will be already incorporated into stock prices. d. you should not buy stocks because bonds are always a better investment than stocks.

Ardmore farm and seed has an inventory dilemma. they have been selling a brand of very popular insect spray for the past year. they have never really analyzed the costs incurred from ordering and holding the inventory and currently fave a large stock of the insecticide in the warehouse. they estimate that it costs $25 to place an order, and it costs $0.25 per gallon to hold the spray. the annual requirements total 80,000 gallons for a 365 day year.a. assuming that 10,000 gallons are ordered each time an order is placed, estimate the annual inventory costs.b. calculate the eoq.c. given the eoq calculated in part b., how many orders should be placed and what is the average inventory balance? d. if it takes seven days to receive an order from suppliers, at what inventory level should ardmore place another order?