Stacy purchased 400 shares of stock for $38 a share.She sold those shares six months later for $34 a share.The initial margin requirement is 80 percent and the maintenance margin is 40 percent.Ignore margin interest and trading costs.If she purchased the shares for cash her holding period return would be ________ percent as compared to ________ percent if she had used margin.
A) -10.12; -12.84
B) -10.53; -13.16
C) -11.63; -14.30
D) -11.63; -14.54
E) -12.27; -15.82
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