Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence and fill in the appropriate answer above.
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........., the company best known for the insider-trading scandal that sent founder Samuel Waksal and domestic diva Martha Stewart to prison, received more bad news this week when a U.S. judge ruled that the patent for its only product was actually owned by three Israeli scientists.
A -
Iamgold
B -
Imclone
C -
ImmuCell
D -
Insilco
2-
Today's stock market scandals are different because the main victims today are ......... investors — everyone from parents saving for their children's college education to the firefighter saving for retirement to the elderly who don't have time to rebuild their nest egg.
A -
Boy-Next-Door
B -
John Q. Public
C -
Main Street
D -
Mom and Pop
3-
In another move towards making itself a financial center, north China's port city of Tianjin has applied to the State Council to establish an ......... market rather than a third stock exchange for the Chinese mainland.
A -
off-the-cuff
B -
on-the-spot
C -
out-of-doors
D -
over-the-counter
4-
From 1989, more share-buying opportunities were made available to the British public as a number of financial institutions demutualised; these ......... shares' for members of the societies offered instant cash or the opportunity to continue as a part owner of the newly public entity.
A -
godsend
B -
jackpot
C -
payoff
D -
windfall
5-
Builders slammed on the brakes in August as housing ......... sank to their lowest level in more than three years, and a drop in permits signaled more weakness ahead for the real estate market.
A -
buys
B -
deals
C -
gains
D -
starts
6-
Broker-dealers impliedly represent that they will deal fairly with their customers, and therefore unfair dealing is a breach of this implied representation and a violation of the antifraud provisions; this representation arises from the mere act of hanging up a sign and going into business, and therefore it is known as the '......... theory'.
A -
salesman
B -
shingle
C -
signal
D -
symbol
7-
Nasdaq data indicate that 94% of the share volume from 4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. resulted from after-hours transactions rather than ......... from the regular trading session.
A -
overflow
B -
runoff
C -
spillover
D -
topoff
8-
WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell has accused Rupert Murdoch of ......... internet companies because of falling ad revenues; he said it was intriguing to speculate why Mr Murdoch launched a multimillion-dollar internet shopping spree, and accused him of buying web operations willy-nilly.
A -
impulse-buying
B -
panic-buying
C -
reflex-buying
D -
scatter-buying
9-
A third of first-time home buyers may cut their offer at the last minute, forcing the seller to take less or find a new buyer; "In total, 31% would consider '.........', reflecting first-time buyers' new-found confidence in a slowing market," says a Yorkshire Bank.
A -
galumphing
B -
gazelling
C -
gazumping
D -
gazundering
10-
When Seagate Technology went public, the giant drivemaker took an important stand: unlike most initial public offerings, it declined to offer any ......... shares, the coveted shares issuers and their bankers can quietly offer to whomever they choose.