1. Calculate the Macaulay duration of a common stock that pays dividends at the endof each year into perpetuity. Assume that the dividend is constant, and that the effective rate ofinterest is 10%.
2. Finance, identify the beta listed for the stocks of four companies: a food service (restaurant) company called Denny's Corporation (stock symbol DENN), Amazon (AMZN), Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), and Waste Management (WM). If you made an equal dollar investment in each of the four stocks, Denny’s Corporation, Amazon, Caterpillar Inc., and Ford Motor Company, what would be the beta of your portfolio?