A communism political system favors an economic structure in which means of production are owned and monitored by the government. A communist economy means that the government will control the majority of factors centered around production. They will determine where resources should be used and what type of goods and services will be produced.<span> </span>
Those who try to benefit from a carry trade are hoping to borrow money at a low interest rate so that they can invest in something that will provide a higher return. People commonly do this between different foreign exchange markets to make the most on their return from investing in different country currencies.
Answer:
B. Reduce the Money Market Fund allocation by 30% (to 10%) and put the released funds in AAA-rated corporate bonds
Explanation:
First of all, since the investor is risk averse and cannot afford to lose money on any risky investment, she should change the mix of her investment portfolio but without increasing risks. Corporate bonds that are AAA-rated carry a very low risk and pay a little higher than money market funds. So a small decrease in money market fund assets and an increase in AAA-rated bonds should yield a slightly higher return.
Investing in equities would be too risky and US Treasuries pay even less interests than money market funds.
Answer:
The current market price is $ 883.08
Explanation:
The current market price can be ascertained using the pv excel function as follows:
=-pv(rate,nper,pmt,fv)
rate is the semiannual yield to maturity which is 5%/2
nper is the number of semiannual coupons in the bond i.e 10*2=20
pmt is the semiannual coupon=3.5%*1/2*$1000=$17.5
fv is the face value of the bond
=-pv(5%/2,20,17.5,1000)=$ 883.08
Typically, a simple way to think of an input is anything that costs money. These can be both good and bad things. A simple example would be: if I had a machine that made candy: my inputs would be the energy required to run the machine, the person required to work the machine, and the ingredients I had to put in to make the candy. My outputs might be the candy the machine made and the happiness it gave to people who ate it. A negative output might be that it made people unhealthy.
As an internet company eBay does not have many of the typical inputs of doing business. For example, it does NOT have the cost of physical stores nor does it have the cost of depreciating inventory or any machines. For eBay, some examples of inputs would be it's people such as software engineers, marketing team, and executive staff. All overhead such as office space and the electricity to power its office space would be another example. Other examples could include the physical code behind eBay's software and money used to finance the company, and the data warehouses used to store everything.
Outputs can be thought of as the value a company creates. eBay's outputs are also somewhat atypical. eBay does not create a physical product that they then sell so that makes this a challenging question. You could argue that eBay's store or its platform is an output. All the data it produces as a company is an output and has a lot of value. Since eBay allows people across the world to open up their own store online, you could say it's creating the social good of jobs or entrepreneurship "global employment" through this action (eBay has supported this publicly as well so you could look up more about it on Google). Another output could be eBay stores created by sellers. eBay owns PayPal so if you can think of any related to PayPal you could include those as well and cite that eBay owns the company.
Hope that helps
