You Have Approached Your Local Bank for a Start-Up Loan

question 38

Multiple Choice

You have approached your local bank for a start-up loan commitment for $1,000,000 needed to open a car repair store. You have requested that the term of the loan be one year. Your bank has offered you the following terms: size of loan commitment = $1,000,000, term = one year, up-front fee = 20 basis points, back-end fee = 50 basis points, and rate on the loan = 9 percent. If you immediately take down $750,000 and no more during the year, what is the total interest and fees you have paid on this loan commitment?

• A) $70,250
• B) $70,750
• C) $74,500
• D) $93,250

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Definitions:

Investors

Persons or organizations that invest funds anticipating financial profits in return.

Expectations Theory

With respect to dividends: a dividend that’s lower than expected will be taken as a negative by investors even if it is larger than previous dividends. A variation on the signaling effect of dividends. With respect to interest rates: A theory explaining the shape of the yield curve. The curve slopes up or down depending on whether expectations about future interest and inflation rates are increasing or decreasing.

Signaling Effect

The signaling effect refers to the idea that actions by a company can provide information to investors about its future prospects.

Dividend Increase

An action by a company to raise the amount of money paid to its shareholders as dividends.