Suppose that JPMorgan Chase sells call options on $1.20 million worth of a stock portfolio with beta = 1.60. The option delta is 0.60. It wishes to hedge its resultant exposure to a market advance by buying a market-index portfolio. Suppose it use market index puts to hedge its exposure. The index at current prices represents $1,000 worth of stock. a. How many dollars’ worth of the market-index portfolio should it purchase to hedge its position? b. What is the delta of a put option? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places. Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign.) c. Complete the following: (Negative amount should be indicated by a minus sign.)

Cadbury has a chocolate factory in dunedin, new zealand. for easter, it makes two kinds of “easter eggs”: milk chocolate and dark chocolate. it cycles between producing milk and dark chocolate eggs. the table below provides data on these two products. demand (lbs per hour) milk: 500 dark: 200 switchover time (minutes) milk: 60 dark: 30 production rate per hour milk: 800 dark: 800 for example, it takes 30 minutes to switch production from milk to dark chocolate. demand for milk chocolate is higher (500lbs per hour versus 200 lbs per hour), but the line produces them at the same rate (when operating): 800 lbs per hour. a : suppose cadbury produces 2,334lbs milk chocolate and 1,652 lbs of dark chocolate in each cycle. what would be the maximum inventory (lbs) of milk chocolate? b : how many lbs of milk and dark chocolate should be produced with each cycle so as to satisfy demand while minimizing inventory?