Answer:
New home sales and existing home sales are released each month at about the same time. Many comparisons are made between the two series, but before doing any comparisons, one must be aware of some definition differences that affect the timing of the statistics.
The Census Bureau collects new home sales based upon the following definition: "A sale of the new house occurs with the signing of a sales contract or the acceptance of a deposit." The house can be in any stage of construction: not yet started, under construction, or already completed. Typically about 25% of the houses are sold at the time of completion. The remaining 75% are evenly split between those not yet started and those under construction.
Existing home sales data are provided by the National Association of Realtors®. According to them, "the majority of transactions are reported when the sales contract is closed." Most transactions usually involve a mortgage which takes 30-60 days to close. Therefore an existing home sale (closing) most likely involves a sales contract that was signed a month or two prior.
Given the difference in definition, new home sales usually lead existing home sales regarding changes in the residential sales market by a month or two. For example, an existing home sale in January, was probably signed 30 to 45 days earlier which would have been in November or December. This is based on the usual time it takes to obtain and close a mortgage.
Effective with January 2005, the National Association of Realtors created a new monthly series to overcome the lagging effect of the existing home sales definition. This new series is called Pending Home Sales and is based on sales of existing homes where the contract has been signed but the transaction has not been closed, making it roughly equivalent to the new home sales definition. Monthly estimates are expressed as an index where the year 2001 has been set to equal 100.0.
Explanation:
Answer:
(i)New firms will enter the market.
(iii)In the long run, all firms will be producing at their efficient scale
Explanation:
A perfect competition is characterised by many buyers and sellers of homogenous goods and services. Market price is set by the forces of demand and supply.
If firms are earning positive profits, in the long run new firms would enter into the industry and this woold drive positive profits to zero. As a result , firms would be operating at the efficient scale.
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Answer:
The correct answer would be Specialized Executive Search Firms.
Explanation:
When companies hire employees, they usually use the conventional methods of recruitment, like giving ads in newspapers or pasting ad on a social job site, etc. But when employees for the important management positions are required to hire, companies often use Specialized Executive Search Firms. These are the recruitment firms which takes the demands of the employer and search for the best of the best candidates to be interviewed by the employers. Such firms have fine data about the best candidates in their databases which updates regularly. Also, after selecting the candidates, they first take initial interviews of the potential employees themselves and then route them to the employer.
Answer:
The rate at which to discount the payments to find sum borrowed is 12.68%
Explanation:
The discount rate to be used in computing the sum borrowed can e derived from the effective annual rate formula below:
Effective annual rate = (1 + Quoted interest rate/m)^m - 1
quoted interest rate is 8.40
m is the number of months in a year when compounding is done which is 12
effective annual rate=(1+8.40%/12)^12-1
effective annual rate=(1+0.01)^12-1
effective annual rate=(1.01)^12-1
effective annual rate=1.12682503
-1
effective annual rate=0.12682503=12.68%
Answer:
B.
Explanation:
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