The determinants of asset demand apply to gold as well: wealth, expected return on gold relative to alternative assets, riskiness of gold relative to alternative assets, and liquidity of gold relative to alternative assets. Show graphically and explain how changes in each factor shifts the demand for gold.
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Over the last 20-30 years, Treasury Departments have reduced significantly the number of full time employees working solely on Treasury issues. What changes has allowed Treasury to process more data, provide more and better analysis and improve the Treasury process?
In: Finance
a) Define and explain the following terms:
Secured versus unsecured debt
Senior versus subordinated debt
b) Compare 30-year bond to a 5-year bond all else equal. Which one is more sensitive to interest rate changes. Why? Please explain.
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NO COPY AND PASTE. Write your own opinion.
Pepsi enters India.
1. How did the company react to the changes in the business environment after the liberalization of the Indian economy in the earl 1990s? Critically comment on the allegations that Pepsi deliberately did not adhere to most of its commitments.
In: Economics
In: Finance
| Bond maturity | 4 | Years | initial interest rate = | 4.00% | |
| Coupon Rate | 5.00% | Annual Coupon | |||
| Face Value | $1,000.00 | ||||
| Dollar Coupons | $50.00 | ||||
Given the information in the table, what is the reinvestment
effect in year 4
if the interest rate changes from 4.00% to 6.00% ?
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Name three health-related topics may be considered by the 2018 Kansas legislature. Explain how you identified these priorities. How would changes in each topic positively or negatively impact health? Be specific about the population who would benefit from each change
In: Economics
1. Looking at the recent drop in price of crude oil, would you advise an Oil Exporting Country to to hedge ? Explain what instruments they can use and what will be the opportunities and risks for them when price changes (goes up or goes down) from where it fell-to in
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In Chapter 10, we are working on simple harmonic motion. What similarities do you see in the motion of the skater in the simulation to the simple harmonic motion described in Chapter 10? Use the pendulum as an example and discuss changes in velocity, potential energy, kinetic energy and damped motion.
In: Physics
Explain how the rate of glucose transport across cell membranes can be altered without a change in the external glucose concentration at which V1/2 and Vmax are measured. Explain what cellular changes can alter the external glucose concentration at which V1/2 is measured
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