Answer: normal /upward sloping
Explanation:
The yield curve is a curve that shows the relationship that exist between interest rate and time to maturity. According to the expectation theory, it is stated that the yield curve will be upward sloping when there's increase in inflationary expectations.
The slope of the yield curve helps in giving a clue to know the direction of future interest rates. It should be noted that an upward sloping curve means that there is an expectation of higher interest rates in the future.
Therefore, when investors expect inflation to increase over the next 20 years and the maturity risk premium to increase over the next 5 years, the general yield curve will be upward sloping.
The answer is option "<span>b. eps and stock price.".
</span>
Stock price changes are famously hard to foresee, yet the earning per-share figure is a decent beginning stage for measuring an organization's prospects.The P/E proportion measures the connection between an organization's stock price and EPS (which stands for earnings per share) of stock issued. The P/E proportion is ascertained by separating an organization's present stock cost by its earning per share (EPS).
Answer:
<u>Diversify business operations and investments </u>
Explanation:
A merger refers to a corporate agreement between two firms agreeing to share resources and skills jointly or in a collaboration, with an objective of gaining a greater market share collectively.
Conglomerate merger refers to a form of merger agreement wherein, the two merging firms deal in completely unrelated products or services or operate in different industries.
The benefits such a merger yields are, increment in the market share, business diversification i.e dealing in new products and exploring new markets, cross selling of products and synergistic benefits.
