You decided to invest $10,000 of your savings in a stock whose current price is $25 per share. To utilize the benefit of margin investing, you borrowed an additional $10,000 from your broker and invested $20,000 in the stock, If the maintenance margin is 30 pereent, at what price will you receive your first margin call?

You decided to invest $10,000 of your savings in a stock whose current price is $25 per share. To utilize the benefit of margin investing, you borrowed an additional $10,000 from your broker and invested $20,000 in the stock, If the maintenance margin is 30 pereent, at what price will you receive your first margin call?

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ISBN:9780357033609

Author:Randall Billingsley, Lawrence J. Gitman, Michael D. Joehnk

Publisher:Randall Billingsley, Lawrence J. Gitman, Michael D. Joehnk

Chapter12: Investing In Stocks And Bonds

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 2FPE: An investor is thinking about buying some shares of Health Diagnostics, Inc., at $75 a share. She...

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