Question

a contraction period is characterized by the following attributes: businesses that are operating lower productive capacity, unemployment, low retail sales, prices and interest rates, a declining stock market, and expectations of business profits.

Answer 1

Economic cycle is defined as the fluctuations of the economy between the period of expansion and contraction.

There are four stages of economic cycle :

Expansion, peak, contraction, trough

Under the stage of contraction, the business flow is slow as low retail sales, prices, interest rates. The correction will takes place in this stage and economy started recovering in the next stage that is trough.

It is very important to insight the economic cycle for taking major decisions regarding investment and business.

This cycle goes in cyclic pattern.

The investors will invest more in the contraction period because rates were relatively low in this stage.

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