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igomit [66]
4 years ago
11

Charles, the president of an IT company, is friends with Levi, the CEO of Cyber Industries, a company that develops and manufact

ures computer hardware. Levi tells Charles that Cyber Industries is about to announce the creation of a revolutionary new computer processor that will quadruple processing capacity and cause Cyber Industries’ sales and profits to skyrocket. Charles then purchases a large number of shares of Cyber Industries company stock before the news of the new computer processor is made public. In which illegal activity has Charles engaged
a. A Ponzi scheme
b. Short selling
c. issuing is call
Business
1 answer:
Akimi4 [234]4 years ago
7 0

Answer: Option A

 

Explanation: In simple words, Ponzi scheme refers to a scheme in which a company deceit their earlier investor by paying them from the funds of recent investors in the form of profits.

In the given case, Levi deceited Charles by making him believe of a strategy that may or may not exist in his organisation. Thus, he will pay charles from the money that he will gain from the market after the announcement of the new processor.

Hence from the above we can conclude that the correct option is A.

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