A $1,000 par value 4% bond with semi-annual coupons matures at the end of 10 years. The bond is callable at $1,050 at the end of years 4 through 6, is callable at $1,025 at the ends of years 7 through 9, and is callable at $1,000 at the end of year 10. Find the maximum price that an investor can pay and still be certain of a yield rate of 5% convertible semi-annually

You are a manager at asda. you have been given the demand data for the past 10 weeks for swim rings for children. you decide to run multiple types of forecasting methods on the data to see which gives you the best forecast. if you were to use exponential smoothing with alpha =.8, what would be your forecast for week 22? (the forecast for week 21 was 1277.) week demand 12 1317 13 1307 14 1261 15 1258 16 1267 17 1256 18 1268 19 1277 20 1277 21 1297