Principles of Managerial Finance Plus MyLab Finance with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (15th Edition)
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Chapter 2, Problem 2.2P
Transaction costs In late December you decide, for tax purposes, to sell a losing position that you hold in Twitter, which is listed on the NYSE, so that you can capture the loss and use it to offset some
- a. Suppose that your total transaction costs for selling the 1,200 shares of Twitter in December were $59.95. What was the bid/ask spread for Twitter at the time your trade was executed?
- b. Given that Twitter is listed on the NYSE, do your total transaction costs for December seem reasonable? Explain why or why not.
- c. When your February statement arrives in the mail, you see that your total transaction costs for buying the 1,200 shares of Twitter were $47.95. What was the bid/ask spread for Twitter at the time your trade was executed?
- d. What are your total round-trip transaction costs for both selling and buying the shares, and what could you have done differently to reduce the total costs?
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