et: to fall to increase Interest expense to fall on interest income, interest expense or the loan loss reserve 37. You own a portfolio of stocks and you want to hedge against a very large drop in the value of the portfolio but do not care about a small drop in the portfolio's value. You would like to make the "insurance" affordable. You would be most likely to: a) buy an in the money call option on a stock index b) buy an in the money put option on a stock index c) buy an out of the money call option on a stock index d) buy an out of the money put option on a stock index
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