Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence and fill in the appropriate answer above.
1-
......... capitalists mitigate the risk of investing by developing a portfolio of young companies in a single fund.
A -
Invention
B -
Investment
C -
Venture
D -
Vulture
2-
Sanyo Electric is cooperating with the investigation into its suspected window-......... of earnings; Sanyo may have falsified its fiscal 2003 earnings report, writing off far fewer losses than its subsidiaries had and falsely reporting a profit when it was in the red.
A -
cleaning
B -
dressing
C -
screening
D -
waxing
3-
Price discrepancies, although at odds with mainstream finance, are persistent phenomena in financial markets; these apparent mispricings lead to the presence of ........., who aim to exploit the resulting profit opportunities, but whose role remains controversial.
A -
arbitrageurs
B -
arbitrators
C -
saboteurs
D -
segregators
4-
While we anticipate that a supplemental for FY07 will ultimately be signed into law, we expect uncertainty surrounding the level of DoD funding will continue, and as a result, we have less ......... into our next fiscal year than we normally would have at this point in the year.
A -
assurance
B -
confidence
C -
security
D -
visibility
5-
"One of the reasons we have a healthcare crisis is because, as a consumer, I don't have that much ......... in the game," said Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee, "there needs to be a transformation from a third-party insurance system to more financial participation by the patient."
A -
clout
B -
coin
C -
heart
D -
skin
6-
A lot of investors and fund managers sold the stock only to buy it a few days later at lower prices; but there is brokerage to be paid on both the transactions (while buying and selling), so unless the fund manager will make a lot of money on that stock, ......... may not be all that prudent after all.
A -
churning
B -
crossing
C -
shuffling
D -
swinging
7-
The five largest music companies and music retailers agreed to pay $67.4 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged price-......... in the late 1990s; prosecutors said that the industry kept consumer CD prices artificially high between 1995 and 2000 with a practice known as 'minimum-advertised pricing'.
A -
fixing
B -
freezing
C -
setting
D -
squeezing
8-
Insiders are an obvious target for policies designed to provide information security, because they have legitimate uses for communication channels that can also be used to breach security; by restricting the use of these channels, the organisation can create barriers to information ..........
A -
bondage
B -
breakage
C -
leakage
D -
spillage
9-
......... pitch is a quick and concise way to communicate who you are, what you do, and why you do it better; it's more than a mission statement — it's understanding your business in a way that gets people excited, involved, and thinking.
A -
A doorway
B -
An alley
C -
An elevator
D -
A sidewalk
10-
If a trader is in a long position on a currency pair and the exchange rate moves upward in her favor a bit but fails to move past a key resistance level she was expecting as a catalyst for further movement, the trader would probably deem the trade ......... on a failure and close it out for whatever profit had been earned.