Essay question 2.c Refer to Table 4. What are the People’s Bank excess reserves?

Match the following clinical feature with the appropriate nerve: Patient’s tongue is deviated to one side

After getting up one morning, a 64-year-old male had difficulty walking because he tended to fall to the left. When he lay down, he felt as if the left side of his face was burning. When he called for help, his voice has hoarse, and had difficulty swallowing a sip of water. In the ER an examination revealed that his left eyelid drooped, and his left pupil was smaller on the left that the right. He had a right beating horizontal nystagmus, and reduced hearing on the left. He did not respond to pin pricks on the left side of his face, or the right side of the body. A lesion site that accounts for all of the patient’s signs and symptoms is in:

Which of the following yield curves generally implies a normal healthy economy?

If an investor is in a 37 percent marginal tax bracket and can purchase a straight (nonmunicipal) bond at 7.70 percent and a municipal bond at 4.19 percent, compute the after-tax yield on the fully-taxable (i.e. nonmunicipal) bond.

Based on the following information, what is the standard deviation on an equally weighted portfolio of these three stocks?State of Probability of   Rate of Return if State OccursEconomy State of Economy  Stock A Stock B Stock CBoom          0.30                     0.12    0.33    0.06Bust            0.70                   –0.24  –0.12  –0.21

Which is not one of the Brainstorming techniques students have been encourage to utilize in this Course?

A portfolio is composed of two stocks, A and B. Stock A has a standard deviation of return of 19%, while stock B has a standard deviation of return of 30%. The correlation coefficient between the returns on A and B is 0.80. Stock A comprises 33% of the portfolio, while stock B comprises 67% of the portfolio. The standard deviation of the return on this portfolio is ________.

Bonds rated ________ or better (i.e. higher) by Standard & Poor’s are considered investment grade.

An increase in a bond’s yield to maturity results in a price decline that is ________ the price increase resulting from a decrease in yield of equal magnitude.