Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence and fill in the appropriate answer above.
1-
The tendency of stocks newly added to the S&P composite index to rise in price due to a large number of buy orders as funds add the stock to their portfolios is called the S&P ..........
A -
Effect
B -
Factor
C -
Phenomenon
D -
Reaction
2-
As demand for metals lurched lower and layoffs swelled, the once pulsing industrial belt that stretches from Illinois across to western New England took on the grim, ground-down demeanor of a half-century earlier, acquiring the glumly descriptive epithet of ......... Bowl.
A -
Bust
B -
Crust
C -
Dust
D -
Rust
3-
Once a firm's stock becomes substantially ........., managers who wish to eliminate this are faced with disappointing the capital markets.
A -
overpriced
B -
oversold
C -
overstated
D -
overvalued
4-
An angel investor's ......... money is sometimes the only way a business can get off the ground; this type of financing can create growth that would be impossible through traditional financing channels.
A -
cheap
B -
free
C -
gift
D -
love
5-
IT managers often must promise a higher rate of return to justify technology investments than other corporate departments; in some organizations, the ......... rate for a project to pass the funding threshold may exceed 30% to 50%.
A -
handicap
B -
hedge
C -
holdup
D -
hurdle
6-
Fannie Mae's 15-year mortgage-backed securities and Bilbo Baggins's friends are called ..........
A -
dwarves
B -
elves
C -
gremlins
D -
trolls
7-
The settlement price for a weather futures contract is calculated by summing ......... Degree Day values for a month and multiplying that sum by $20.
A -
Cooling
B -
Freezing
C -
Heating
D -
Warming
8-
An ......... stock is one whose price suddenly plunges; the fall is usually caused by panicked shareholders rushing to sell after hearing unexpected bad news.
A -
airliner
B -
air pocket
C -
skydiver
D -
submariner
9-
The ......... defense is used in a hostile takeover situation: the target firm turns around and tries to take over the company that has made the hostile bid.
A -
Donkey Kong
B -
Pac Man
C -
Super Mario
D -
Tomb Raider
10-
I can imagine why that Ford manager in Michigan recently announced that they would eat their own ......... food (only Ford- or subsidiary-built vehicles are allowed to park on the plant premises); it must be discouraging to see the place swarmed every day by Daihatsus, Suzukis and Toyotas.