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The tendency of stocks newly added to the S&P composite index to rise in price due to a large number of buy orders as funds add the stock to their portfolios is called the S&P ..........

	(a) Effect
	(b) Factor
	(c) Phenomenon
	(d) Reaction

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As demand for metals lurched lower and layoffs swelled, the once pulsing industrial belt that stretches from Illinois across to western New England took on the grim, ground-down demeanor of a half-century earlier, acquiring the glumly descriptive epithet of ......... Bowl.

	(a) Bust
	(b) Crust
	(c) Dust
	(d) Rust

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Once a firm's stock becomes substantially ........., managers who wish to eliminate this are faced with disappointing the capital markets.

	(a) overpriced
	(b) oversold
	(c) overstated
	(d) overvalued

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An angel investor's ......... money is sometimes the only way a business can get off the ground; this type of financing can create growth that would be impossible through traditional financing channels.

	(a) cheap
	(b) free
	(c) gift
	(d) love

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IT managers often must promise a higher rate of return to justify technology investments than other corporate departments; in some organizations, the ......... rate for a project to pass the funding threshold may exceed 30% to 50%.

	(a) handicap
	(b) hedge
	(c) holdup
	(d) hurdle

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Fannie Mae's 15-year mortgage-backed securities and Bilbo Baggins's friends are called ..........

	(a) dwarves
	(b) elves
	(c) gremlins
	(d) trolls

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The settlement price for a weather futures contract is calculated by summing ......... Degree Day values for a month and multiplying that sum by $20.

	(a) Cooling
	(b) Freezing
	(c) Heating
	(d) Warming

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An ......... stock is one whose price suddenly plunges; the fall is usually caused by panicked shareholders rushing to sell after hearing unexpected bad news.

	(a) airliner
	(b) air pocket
	(c) skydiver
	(d) submariner

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The ......... defense is used in a hostile takeover situation: the target firm turns around and tries to take over the company that has made the hostile bid.

	(a) Donkey Kong
	(b) Pac Man
	(c) Super Mario
	(d) Tomb Raider

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I can imagine why that Ford manager in Michigan recently announced that they would eat their own ......... food (only Ford- or subsidiary-built vehicles are allowed to park on the plant premises); it must be discouraging to see the place swarmed every day by Daihatsus, Suzukis and Toyotas.

	(a) cooked
	(b) dog
	(c) health
	(d) soul

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