Commodity brokers use forward and futures contracts for which of the following reasons? a. commodities come from many different countries with very different currency exchange rates. b. the seasonal nature of many commodities would lead to wide variations in supply and price without these contracts. c. the riskiness of commodity production means that many commodity producers go bankrupt before harvest time. d. the raw, unprocessed nature of commodities means that there is always a third party to any commodity-purchase contract. 2b2t

Suppose a stock had an initial price of $65 per share, paid a dividend of $1.45 per share during the year, and had an ending share price of $58. a, compute the percentage total return. (a negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. what was the dividend yield and the capital gains yield? (a negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

When the federal reserve buys bonds from or sells bonds to member banks, it is called monetary policy reserve ratio interest rate adjustment open market operations

Demand increases by less than supply increases. as a result, (a) equilibrium price will decline and equilibrium quantity will rise. (b) both equilibrium price and quantity will decline. (c) both equilibrium price and quantity will rise