Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence and fill in the appropriate answer above.
1-
Market ......... are nursing a bad case of whiplash: most of the 42 strategists surveyed by 'Business Week' a year ago saw their yearend forecasts surpassed in the first few months of 1996 — the consensus view then was for the Dow Jones to rise 5% and end the year at 5430, but the Dow passed 5430 in early February.
A -
adepts
B -
Einsteins
C -
mavens
D -
virtuosos
2-
Long-struggling Randall Park Mall now is in the hands of a Raleigh, N.C., real estate investor who specializes in buying ailing malls and who, until earlier this year, owned Euclid Square Mall; investor Haywood Whichard bought Randall Park for the type of price that gives spice to the life of real estate ..........
A -
bottom-diggers
B -
bottom-dwellers
C -
bottom-feeders
D -
bottom-fishers
3-
One reason traders are moving to the Forex is the momentum and longevity of trends: currencies tend to trend 1,000 pips or more in a direction, and thenmove back 1,000 pips or more within a 4- to 6-week period, and this type of movement gives the position trader a great opportunity for ......... the market.
A -
chasing
B -
pacing
C -
racing
D -
tracing
4-
If the total asset value of your portfolio averaged $1 million and the total value of assets sold during the year equals $200,000, then the portfolio ......... is 20% or one fifth.
A -
rate
B -
return
C -
trend
D -
turnover
5-
The purchase of YouTube by Google for $1.65bn (883m) is just the latest in a series of high-profile, high-value deals among internet firms, but does it mean that we are entering another ......... boom era, like the one in the late 1990s that ended in a stock-market collapse?
A -
dotcom
B -
online
C -
podcast
D -
webnet
6-
The 1980s was a decade of corporate ......... as companies sought to buy out or build strategic alliances with competitors; nearly $1.3 trillion was spent on corporate mergers in the 1980s, more than the annual economic output of the UK.
A -
cannibalism
B -
hyperactivity
C -
megalomania
D -
predation
7-
The Act also restores the power of local governments to issue ......... bonds, which are general obligation bonds payable from enterprise funds or from a special revenue source or both, with the general obligation of the local government acting as a back-up security.
A -
double-barreled
B -
double-handled
C -
double-sighted
D -
double-troubled
8-
Dennis N. Abbott, a former trader at BP, admitted that he carried out a strategy to buy large quantities of February 2004 TET propane to become the dominant long-holder of TET propane; he intended that the purchasing strategy would ......... the market by reducing the supply, permitting him to sell propane at an artificially inflated price.
A -
cage
B -
carry
C -
corner
D -
crate
9-
Almost 10 years after Telfonos de Mxico (TMX), Mexico's 800-pound ........., was privatized, Mexicans still find reasons to hate the phone company; although the Mexican market has been open to competition for four years, the company is still a quasi-monopoly.
A -
canary
B -
directory
C -
gorilla
D -
tortilla
10-
Since it is nearly Christmas, I thought I would write something about the Boston Snow .........: the theory is that if there is snow in Boston on Christmas day then the price of stocks will go up for the coming new year.