Chapter 1 Role of Financial Markets and Institutions 1. Financial market participants who provide funds are called A) deficit units. B) surplus units. C) primary units. D) secondary units. 2. The main provider(s) of funds to the U.S. Treasury is (are) A) households and businesses. B) foreign financial institutions
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Factors Affecting Heart Rate‚ Respiratory Rate‚ and Blood Pressure By Ann-Geyn PanganFor Michele MacKenieInvestigative Team:Biology 0993Nejat MuradOctober 14‚ 2014Jenn SakelariouIntroduction In class we studied circulatory system‚ especially the heart that plays a large part in human. We learned and analyzed its part and function in the body. The purpose of this experiment is to compare the readings of how the heart rate‚ respiratory rate and blood pressure respond to increasing levels of physical
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The unemployment rate An unemployed person is one who is able and willing to work yet is unable to find a job. The unemployment rate is the number of unemployed workers divided by the total civilian labor force‚ which includes both the unemployed and those with jobs. Measuring the number of unemployed workers actually seeking work is very difficult‚ but there exists several different methods to do so. Each method has its own biases and the different systems that make comparing unemployment
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Effects of Raising Interest Rates If a central bank increases the base rate‚ this tends to increase all major interest rates in the economy. This means interest rates for both savers and borrowers will increase. Higher interest rates will have various economic effects: 1. Increases the cost of borrowing. Interest payments on credit cards and loans will be more expensive. Therefore this discourages people from borrowing and saving. People who already have loans will have less disposable income
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Free exchange Savers’ lament The complex effects of low interest rates on consumption and investment Dec 1st 2012 | from The Economist print edition WHEN interest rates hit double digits in the late 1970s‚ house-builders sent planks of wood to the Federal Reserve in protest. With rates stuck near zero‚ the protests now come from the opposite direction. The retired complain of a “war on savings”. The Fed cut rates to current levels at the end of 2008 and has promised to keep them there until
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The discount rate Main article: Discount rate The rate used to discount future cash flows to their present values is a key variable of this process. A firm’s weighted average cost of capital (after tax) is often used‚ but many people believe that it is appropriate to use higher discount rates to adjust for risk or other factors. A variable discount rate with higher rates applied to cash flows occurring further along the time span might be used to reflect the yield curve premium for long-term
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5.0 Contents 8 5.1 Factor That Effect Exchange Rates in Long Run 8 5.2 Exchange rates in short run (A supply and demand Analysis) 10 5.3 Factor that determinant exchange rate 11 5.3.1 Shift the demand for domestic assets 11 5.4 Other Factors that effects exchange rates and its volatility 12 5.4.1 International financial crises 12 5.4.2 Speculators effect 12 5.4.3 Central bank intervention policy 13 5.2 The effects of exchange rate and volatility 14 5.2.1 International trade‚ export
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Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths (in general‚ or due to a specific cause) in a population‚ scaled to the size of that population‚ per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 1000 individuals per year; thus‚ a mortality rate of 9.5 (out of 1000) in a population of 1‚000 would mean 9.5 deaths per year in that entire population‚ or 0.95% out of the total. It is distinct from morbidity rate‚ which refers to the number of individuals in poor health
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Labor rate variance is the difference between the actual labor rate and the applied overhead rate (standard rate multiplied by the number of actual hours worked). Consider this and respond to the following: • "Our workers are all under labor contracts. Therefore‚ our labor rate variance is bound to be zero." Do you agree or disagree that the labor rate variance will be zero if all workers are under labor contracts? Explain giving reasons. The concept of labor rate variance and its application
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Interest Rates An interest rate is the rate at which interest is paid by borrowers for the use of money that they borrow from a lender. Specifically‚ the interest rate is a percent of principal paid a certain amount of times per period. Small companies often borrow capital from banks to buy new assets for its business‚ and in return the lender receives interest at a predetermined interest rate for deferring the use of funds and instead lending it to the borrower. Interest rates are
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