2. Justify your allocation based on your outlook for systematic risk in the U.S. Systematic risk is primarily based on the risks that are associated with actual or real events that may affect the market. This includes interest rates‚ inflation‚ wars and all that can affect the market and cannot be avoided through diversification. Systematic risk can be associated with riskier securities if and when compared to bonds. This rate of return is mainly unpredictable but can be profitable. My reasoning
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Professor Honeycutt English 1010 December 10‚ 2012 Gas Prices too high to pay Today gas prices have crept up to just over fifteen dollars a gallon. Due to rapidly depleted resources‚ the price of oil has gone to five hundred and thirty dollars; therefore the final price of gasoline had to increase. This has caused extreme violence to erupt all over the nation‚ especially at the gas stations themselves. People‚ in order just to fill up their gas tanks have had to sacrifice many things in their daily
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contribute to rising gasoline prices. The major cause for increasing gasoline prices has to do with refining capacity. Even if oil were inexpensive‚ we would still have a problem converting it into the gas that fuels our economy. That is what keeps the gas prices high. When gas supplies are short‚ due to an “inability to refine crude oil into gas efficiently‚” prices increase. This is a component of supply and demand economics. In a positive aspect‚ rising gasoline prices do serve a purpose; they
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Changes of Gasoline Retail Prices from 1999-2008 Economics James Bork Chris DeShaney October 11‚ 2010 Over the period of 1980 to 2010 the prices of gasoline have fluctuated a lot from lows to highs. There were some drastic prices increases from 1999 to 2008 changing from one dollar to four dollars. After 2008 the prices suddenly fell off drastically but never have returned to what they were in 1999. The main cause for the rise and fall of prices over the years can be attributed to the supply
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Gas Price Elasticity The Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy began tracking weekly gasoline prices in 1990 by means of a survey of 800 service stations around the country. The average retail price for unleaded gasoline posted its fourth record high during the week of June 12‚ 2000‚ increasing 5 cents a gallon to an average of $1.681. The price at the pump is higher than the same period last year by 56 cents and has risen 16.2 cents over the past month (Anonymous‚ 2000)
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Oil and Gas PricesOil and Gas 2There are many issues that cause the cost of oil and gas to increase. The main contributing issue to the increasing cost of oil and gas is supply and demand‚ when demand is greater than supply‚ the price of oil and gas will increase. The factors that affect supply include increased demand‚ problems with refineries and pipelines‚ and disruption to supply or threat of disruption to supply.With the increased demand for oil in the United States and other countries such
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THE UNIVERSITY OF LAHORE ECONOMICS PROJECT GROUP MEMBERS:SAAD JAVEDUMER SALEEMSAJID MUSHTAQ | BCS01113326BCS01113341BCS0111 | TOPIC: “EFFECT OF PETROLEUM PRICES ON ECONOMY” LITERATURE REVIEW: A literature review is a text written by someone to consider the critical points of current knowledge including substantive findings as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Critical points: * history * History: Petroleum‚ in one form or another
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High Fuel Prices and its Effect on the U.S. Economy ACC 202-02 Managerial Accounting Professor Jackie Lewis North Carolina Wesleyan University High Fuel Prices and its Effect on the U.S. Economy The United States economy as a whole has been rapidly dwindling down of late‚ from its all time high marks in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Many Americans believe that the cause for this large downswing in the economy is due to the fact of the cost
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What Moves the Oil and Gas Price? Why are oil prices and gas prices so dramatically increased in the last view years? Oil and gas price will maintain the current level or rise in the next years because of the world economy‚ an increased demand on oil and its production costs‚ the gas demand‚ and the investment in developing alternative energy sources. How long will the oil reserves last? It is currently estimated that the oil reserves in the United States will last for 20 to 30 years
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Price effect: The price change effect on consumption can be broken down into two parts depending upon the change relative in pricing of products and income. The first one is called substitution effect wherein price change of a product leads to change in consumption‚ here the income remains constant. The second is the income effct wherein the relative income of people changes which leads to a change in the purchasing power‚ here the price is considered constant. * prices change >> income
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