To the investor, stocks are riskier than bonds because
A. interest rates fluctuate more than stock prices.
B. dividends and capital gains depend on profits.
C. speculators manipulate stocks but not bonds.
D. dividends are taxed twice.
Answer: B
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If the Fed desired to reduce the federal funds rate,
A) it would conduct an open market sale, reducing reserve supply. B) it would conduct an open market purchase, increasing reserve supply. C) it would conduct an open market sale, increasing reserve demand. D) it would conduct an open market purchase, reducing reserve demand.
Supply chain management refers to
A) the contracts put in place to manage a firm's suppliers. B) the decisions around which stages of production to handle internally and which to buy from others. C) how the firm compensates the employees who work on the firm's internal stages of production. D) the 19th century practice of having barges move downstream with the flow of the river.
The longer the time period under study,
a. the more elastic is the price elasticity of demand. b. the less sensitive consumers will be to price changes. c. the less adjustment consumers will make to price changes. d. the more inelastic is the price elasticity of demand. e. the more likely any given price cut will result in a smaller reaction by the consumer.
How much a firm must charge to sell any given quantity of their product is described by a(n):
A. demand curve. B. supply curve. C. inverse demand function. D. production function.