Answer:
Over the last two years, small businesses have taken to the electronic space as a means of expanding their businesses.
This e-commerce trend experienced an upward spike during the C-19 Pandemic. As businesses were forced to operate remotely, necessity which is the mother of invention, started to thinking of ways to restructure their businesses to operate more electronically using a wide array of online tools and technology.
In a recent survey, 10 out of 50 businesses said they were not reverting back to their former model of operations as they had realised that it was completely unnecessary.
Top reasons given are:
- Given the shedding of operation load and streamlining to basic functions whilst retaining the quality of product and or service, they also shed a lot of costs which increased their bottomline;
- emote service deliveries enabled them to get into more territories that they couldn't access prior to the C-19 pandemic. Thus leading to an expansion of clientele/market share.
Answer:
The answer to the above question is:
"The return patterns around earnings announcement is an example of behaviorial pattern exhibiting as more investors flock to buy the stock which has shown better earnings thus driving up the price. In an efficient market, this information would already be built into the price and thus there would not be any appreciable change in price post earning announcement".
Explanation:
Answer: 16 S&P 500 futures contracts
Explanation:
The number of contracts can be calculated by:
= (1 * beta) × Stock value/(Contract size * Index level)
= 1.35 × 12,000,000 / ( 250 * 3,983)
= 1.35 × 12,000,000 / 995,750
= 16 S&P 500 futures contracts
Answer: Fairness and Honesty
Explanation:
Fairness and honesty are vital to every business ethics and it related to thee general values of the decision makers. Firms are expected to follow applicable laws and regulations and are expected not to cause harm or injury to employees, customers, clients, or competitors through coercion, deception,misrepresentation, or discrimination.
False and misleading advertising can lead to business failure, hence, Truthfulness about a produt's safety and its quality are also vital to consumers.
Answer:
D. Increase; increase
Explanation:
Exchange rate is defined as the amount of one currency that can be exchanged for another currency at a particular time.
Demand and supply affects exchange rates of currencies.
Currencies that are in more demand tend to have higher exchange rates, while those with low demand will have low exchange rate.
In this instance an increase in preference for US goods will cause an increased demand for dollars. The dollar becomes stronger against the Peso.
It will take more pesos to purchase the dollar, so equillibrum exchange rate of peso to dollar will increase.
