Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence and fill in the appropriate answer above.
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Shares of Las Vegas Sands Corp. fell after the ......... on Wednesday, after the casino operator said its first-quarter profit fell: LVS.N shares were down 4 percent at $85 in extended-hours trading.
A -
ball
B -
bell
C -
mark
D -
market
2-
With the Dow Jones Industrials teetering on the brink of the 12,000 level, ......... Team commander, Henry Paulson, issued a buy signal; "The president's economic advisers are keeping an eye on the markets," said a White House spokesman, revealing that Bush got a phone briefing from Paulson that day.
A -
Plunge
B -
Poke
C -
Prod
D -
Pump
3-
When volume on an exchange is so heavy that the tape runs more than five minutes behind, the ......... price interrupts the delayed prices every 5-10 minutes to show the current price of a heavily traded stock.
A -
flash
B -
quick
C -
spot
D -
zip
4-
The ......... strategy places bonds only in very short and very long maturities, making it easy to shift the average maturity of the portfolio.
A -
bottleneck
B -
dumbbell
C -
hourglass
D -
pendulum
5-
......... refers mostly to the stocks on the All Ordinaries index, which is composed of 280 of the most active Australian companies.
A -
Kangaroos
B -
Kiwis
C -
Koalas
D -
Kookaburras
6-
Opinion ......... can adversely affect the independence of auditors; it is a different activity than obtaining a second opinion, which has the objective of obtaining the right answer, and is in fact illegal.
A -
combing
B -
gleaning
C -
shopping
D -
trawling
7-
The economy is coming in for a landing; optimists say it will be the much sought after '......... landing' when the economy slows but doesn't skid into recession, but some economists now are forecasting a bumpy landing, or even worse.
A -
slick
B -
smooth
C -
soft
D -
sweet
8-
The pro forma combination of buy-recommended ConocoPhillips (COP) and buy-recommended Burlington Resources (BR) would create a new company with a stock market capitalization of $100 billion thereby qualifying as the sixth mega ......... energy company in our coverage.
A -
bite
B -
buy
C -
cap
D -
corp
9-
Having a ......... chest of $11.2 billion gives Google freedom to make strategic acquisitions, even overpaying if necessary, and to take a longer-term view with its products and acquisitions, enabling it to push new services out the door now and figure out how to make money off them later.
A -
game
B -
hope
C -
treasure
D -
war
10-
......... are not intended for public distribution: they are meant to be a rough introduction to the company about to issue the new security, thus they are incomplete and not necessarily accurate.