Answer:
D) The Agency Problem
Explanation:
The agency problem refers to a conflict of interests between the principal and his/her agent. Agents have a fiduciary duty to act on the best interest of their principal, but sometimes agents place their own personal interest before the interests of their principal.
in this case, the brokers should act on behalf of their clients to make them earn the largest possible profits, but instead they focus on convincing them about transactions that increased the broker's profit and not the clients'.
It is the the negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
Answer:
The answer is:
In general, you will receive higher rates of interest on your certificate of deposit the longer the maturity and the higher the dollar amount invested.
Explanation:
Interest rates are returns that an investor receive from their investment (under this situation - investment in certificate of deposit (CD)).
The higher the risk, the higher the return is required to compensate for the risk-taking of investor.
As long time commitment, that is long maturity, gives the investor higher exposure to risk and higher invested amount resulting to higher loss given default; investors will require higher return, that is - interest rate on CD, to compensate for their risk-taking.
Thus, longer and higher should be the correct choice to fill in the blank.
Answer: Supplier dependence
Explanation:
Supplier dependence is the extent to which a firm (buyer) relies on the product of another firm (supplier) because of the importance of the supplier's products to it's own manufacturing process. The degree to which a buyer is dependent on a supplier's product is largely affected by the difficulty of accessing such products from another seller. In this case, 97% of this rare-earth materials are supplied by Chinese firms, the ban will greatly affect Hitachi manufacturing process.
