Answer: e. Interest rates on long-term bonds are more volatile than rates on short-term debt securities like T-bills.
Explanation:
Long term bonds are considered to be more sensitive to interest rates as opposed to short term securities. If interest rates were to rise, the bond could lose value.
They are also more sensitive to inflation. If inflation rates rise, the value of payment reduces. It is for this reason that longer term bonds have maturity risk premiums added to them to cater for the amount of time the bond has till maturity.
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Answer: b. 34.15 or higher
Explanation:
Short sales refer to the sale of borrowed stocks in anticipation that the stock price of the underlying stock will fall. This will then enable you to make a profit by buying the cheaper shares and giving it back to the entity you borrowed from thereby making a profit.
With short sales, the price is usually upward trending so will normally increase from the last price. As the last price here was $34.15, that would be the likely minimum for the next sale.
This means that the next sale will either be at a price of $34.15 or a price higher than that.
Answer:
a. the portion of its marginal cost curve that lies above the AVC
Explanation:
In short run, a perfectly competitive produces as long as its price is above its AVC, so revenues can cover total variable cost. If price is below AVC, the firm has to shut down. Since such a firm maximizes profit by equating Price with MC, this condition means that firm's supply curve is its MC curve lying above the (minimum point of) AVC curve.
Answer: Elasticity of demand is 7.06
Explanation:
P1= $2,750
P2=$2,880
Q1=446,000
Q2=321,000




Elasticity = -0.76
Thus, elasticity of demand for laptops is 7.06. This means that laptops are highly price elastic as it is greater than 1.
Answer: 9.45%
Explanation:
From the question, we are informed that the assets for BIZZ0 in 2018 were $187,300, the liabilities for that year were $275,600; and the net income was $17,700.
The return on income for the year will be:
= ( Net Income / Total Assets ) × 100
= ($17,700 / $187,300) × 100
= 0.0945
= 9.45%