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[单项选择]Initially, the nominal interest rate is 8 percent and the expected rate of inflation is 6 percent. One year later, the nominal interest rate rises to 12 percent and inflation rate to 10 percent. Based on this information the interest rate:()
A. has risen.
B. has fallen.
C. has remained the same.
[单项选择]The nominal risk-free rate of interest equals the real risk-free rate:()
A. minus expected inflation.
B. plus actual inflation.
C. plus expected inflation.
[单项选择]A long interest rate call and a short interest rate put is an equivalent position to:()
A. a short position in a forward rate agreement.
B. a pay-fixed interest rate swap.
C. a long position in a forward rate agreement.
[单项选择]An analyst does research about interest rate policy tools. In implementing monetary policy, which of the statements is NOT used as an interest rate policy by the U. S. Federal Reserve()
A. Bank reserve requirements.
B. The prime rate.
C. Verbal persuasion to influence how banks supply credit to businesses and consumers.
[单项选择]An analyst does research about interest rate risk. The duration of a bond with $1000 face value is 4.5, and its current price is $990. Which of the following is the best estimate of the bond price change if interest rates increase by 3%()
A. -$133.65
B. -$135.00
C. $133.65
[单项选择]The interest rate paid on negotiable CDs by banks in London is referred to as:
[单项选择]What happens when income rises more slowly than the cost of living
A. Inflation is controlled.
B. Real income decrease.
C. Purchasing power stays the same.
D. Dollar income increases.
[单项选择]At the beginning of the fiscal year, interest rates climbed______3.2 percent, up half a point from the previous year.
A. by
B. in
C. to
D. on
[单项选择]What might be the cause of further interest rate cut
A. Disappointing economic growth
B. Inflation.
C. High oil prices.
D. Tight government policies.
[单项选择]In a plain vanilla interest rate swap:()
A. the notional principal is swapped.
B. only the net notional principal is swapped.
C. only the net interest payments are swapped.
[单项选择]( ) the change in the interest rate, dollars will be faced with an exceptionally difficult situation.
A. Seeing from
B. Judging
C. Judged
D. Judging from
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There was great public interest when a big hole mysteriously appeared in the middle of a field. Army mechanics and engineers were called in to explain how it had got there. They orrered various explanations but were not at all sure how the hole had’been caused. It was thought that a large shell which must have lain buried under the ground for many years had suddenly exploded, but it was not possible to prove this.
A “simple", but highly improbable, explanation was offered by a man who claims to be especially well-informed about "flying saucers —the strange objects which are round in shape and are said to visit the earth occasionally from outer space. The man’s explanation may have been nonsense, but at least it was imaginative. At any rate, it was far more interesting than the one given by the army.
After examing the ground carefully, the man claimed to have seen special marks on the soil quite near the hole.
A. the public took a great interest in the big mysterious hole
B. army engineers and mechanics were not in the least certain how the hole had appeared
C. objects from outer space hold a special attraction, for many people
D. the man who claimed to be well-informed about flying saucers turned out to be a cheat
[单项选择]The most important interest rate used in U. S. monetary policy is the federal funds rate. All else being equal, the federal funds rate will least likely change in a response to a change in the:()
A. real long-term interest rate.
B. supply of real loanable funds.
C. amount of reserves in the banking system.