On april 1, the price of gas at bob's corner station was $3.35 per gallon. on may 1, the price was $3.85 per gallon. on june 1, it was back down to $3.35 per gallon. between april 1 and may 1, bob's price increased by or between may 1 and june 1, bob'ss price decreased by or suppose that at a gas station across the street, prices are always 20% higher than bob's. in absolute dollar terms, the difference between bob's prices and the prices across the street is when gas costs $3.85 than when gas costs $3.35 some economists blame high commodity prices (including the price of gas) on interest rates being too low. suppose the fed raises the target for the federal funds rate from 2% to 2.25 %. this change of percentage points means that the fed raised its target by approximately

In december of 2004, the company you own entered into a 20-year contract with a grain supplier for daily deliveries of grain to its hot dog bun manufacturing facility. the contract called for "10,000 pounds of grain" to be delivered to the facility at the price of $100,000 per day. until february 2017, the supplier provided processed grain which could easily be used in your manufacturing process. however, no longer wanting to absorb the cost of having the grain processed, the supplier began delivering whole grain. the supplier is arguing that the contract does not specify the type of grain that would be supplied and that it has not breached the contract. your company is arguing that the supplier has an onsite processing plant and processed grain was implicit to the terms of the contract. over the remaining term of the contract, reshipping and having the grain processed would cost your company approximately $10,000,000, opposed to a cost of around $1,000,000 to the supplier. after speaking with in-house counsel, it was estimated that litigation would cost the company several million dollars and last for years. weighing the costs of litigation, along with possible ambiguity in the contract, what are three options you could take to resolve the dispute? which would be the best option for your business and why?

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

Manipulation manufacturing's (amm) standards anticipate that there will be 5 pounds of raw material used for every unit of finished goods produced. amm began the month of maymay with 8,000 pounds of raw material, purchased 25,500 pounds for $ 15,300 and ended the month with 7,400 pounds on hand. the company produced 4,9004,900 units of finished goods. the company estimates standard costs at $ 1.10 per pound. the materials price and efficiency variances for the month of maymay were: