2. Justify your allocation based on your outlook for systematic risk in the U.S. Systematic risk is primarily based on the risks that are associated with actual or real events that may affect the market. This includes interest rates‚ inflation‚ wars and all that can affect the market and cannot be avoided through diversification. Systematic risk can be associated with riskier securities if and when compared to bonds. This rate of return is mainly unpredictable but can be profitable. My reasoning
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Gas Price Elasticity The Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy began tracking weekly gasoline prices in 1990 by means of a survey of 800 service stations around the country. The average retail price for unleaded gasoline posted its fourth record high during the week of June 12‚ 2000‚ increasing 5 cents a gallon to an average of $1.681. The price at the pump is higher than the same period last year by 56 cents and has risen 16.2 cents over the past month (Anonymous‚ 2000)
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Professor Honeycutt English 1010 December 10‚ 2012 Gas Prices too high to pay Today gas prices have crept up to just over fifteen dollars a gallon. Due to rapidly depleted resources‚ the price of oil has gone to five hundred and thirty dollars; therefore the final price of gasoline had to increase. This has caused extreme violence to erupt all over the nation‚ especially at the gas stations themselves. People‚ in order just to fill up their gas tanks have had to sacrifice many things in their daily
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contribute to rising gasoline prices. The major cause for increasing gasoline prices has to do with refining capacity. Even if oil were inexpensive‚ we would still have a problem converting it into the gas that fuels our economy. That is what keeps the gas prices high. When gas supplies are short‚ due to an “inability to refine crude oil into gas efficiently‚” prices increase. This is a component of supply and demand economics. In a positive aspect‚ rising gasoline prices do serve a purpose; they
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Changes of Gasoline Retail Prices from 1999-2008 Economics James Bork Chris DeShaney October 11‚ 2010 Over the period of 1980 to 2010 the prices of gasoline have fluctuated a lot from lows to highs. There were some drastic prices increases from 1999 to 2008 changing from one dollar to four dollars. After 2008 the prices suddenly fell off drastically but never have returned to what they were in 1999. The main cause for the rise and fall of prices over the years can be attributed to the supply
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------------------------------------------------- Chapter 7: 7.11 Suppose that we will randomly select a sample of 64 measurements from a population having a mean equal to 20 and a standard deviation equal to 4. A. Describe the shape of the sampling distribution of the sample mean x. Do we need to make any assumptions about the shape of the population? Why or why not? ------------------------------------------------- This would be a normally distributed bell shaped curve. We do not need
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Statistics 1 Business Statistics LaSaundra H. – Lancaster BUS 308 Statistics for Managers Instructor Nicole Rodieck 3/2/2014 Statistics 2 When we hear about business statistics‚ when think about the decisions that a manager makes to help make his/her business successful. But do we really know what it takes to run a business on a statistical level? While some may think that business statistics is too much work because it entails a detailed decision making process
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Oil and Gas PricesOil and Gas 2There are many issues that cause the cost of oil and gas to increase. The main contributing issue to the increasing cost of oil and gas is supply and demand‚ when demand is greater than supply‚ the price of oil and gas will increase. The factors that affect supply include increased demand‚ problems with refineries and pipelines‚ and disruption to supply or threat of disruption to supply.With the increased demand for oil in the United States and other countries such
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BUS 308 Week 4 assignment_ 9.13_9.22_and 12.10_12.18(a) 9.13 Recall that “very satisfied” customers gave the XYZ-Box video game system a rating that is at least 42. Suppose that the manufacturer of the XYZ-Box wishes to use the random sample of 65 satisfaction ratings to provide evidence supporting the claim that the mean composite satisfaction rating for the XYZ-Box exceeds 42. a. Letting represent the mean composite satisfaction rating for the XYZ-Box‚ set up the null hypothesis and the
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Product Recalls Alexander Rodgers BUS 670 Legal Environment (NAF1215B) Kim Stock-Foster May 21‚ 2009 made up so that it can be seen things can go on here at any point and time... Product Recalls In order for a corporation to be successful it should produce products that are effective and reliable. To create a product that is high quality and a low price is the idealistic procedure that any business should operate on. High profits for corporations do not always develop as
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