Which of the following is the largest single component of the market basket used to compute the consumer price index (CPI)?
A. food and beverages
B. housing
C. transportation
D. medical care
Answer: B
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Under which one of the following conditions would a lawyer accept a case on a contingent basis?
A) The lawyer is risk averse. B) The client is risk loving. C) The lawyer has several cases on a contingent basis with payoffs that are not perfectly positively correlated. D) The lawyer is more risk averse than the client is.
A key determinant of the price elasticity of supply is the
a. time horizon. b. income of consumers. c. price elasticity of demand. d. importance of the good in a consumer's budget.
Manufacturers of Weightbegone are concerned that genetic advances in weight control might reduce the demand for their diet snacks. This is an example of
a. firm-specific risk, which will likely raise shareholders' demand for higher return. b. firm-specific risk, which will likely not likely raise shareholders' demand for higher return. c. market risk, which will likely raise shareholders' demand for higher return. d. market risk, which will likely not raise shareholders' demand for higher return.
Which of the following statements is false?
A) A call option will sell for a fraction of the cost of the stock. B) A futures contract can be written for a commodity (such as wheat), or for a currency. C) A futures contract gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a commodity at a specified price on a given future date. D) The specified price at which an option gives the owner the right to buy a stock at is called the stick price.