What is called the manipulation of the market by traders to create the illusion of active volume to attract investors ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What is called when a private company first offers shares to the public market and investors ?

   A. Public offering
   B. Public floating
   C. going public
   D. Coming public

2. Free traders maintain that an open economy is advantageous is that it provides all of the following except ?

   A. Increased competition for world producers
   B. A wider selection of products for consumers
   C. The utilization of the most efficient production methods
   D. Relatively high wages levels for all domestic workers

3. fiscal incentives to attract businesses from abroad include ?

   I- tax holidays
   II- accelerated depreciation
   III- import duty relief
   IV- lower tax rates for reinvested business profits

   A. I and II only
   B. III and IV only
   C. I, II and III only
   D. I, II, III, and IV

4. There is a decentralized market where geographically dispersed dealers are linked by telephones and computer screens. The market is for securities not listed on a stock or bond exchange. Name the market ?

   A. Grey market
   B. Over-the counter (OTC)
   C. Open market
   D. Back market

5. If a producer has market power (can influence the price of the product in the market) then free market solutions ?

   A. are equitable.
   B. are efficient
   C. maximize consumer surplus
   D. are inefficient

6. If all firms in a market have identical cost structures and if inputs used in the production of the good in that market are readily available, then the long-run market supply curve for that good should be ?

   A. downward sloping
   B. perfectly inelastic
   C. upward sloping
   D. perfectly elastic

7. what is called an evaluation of credit quality of a company’s debt issued by Moody’s S&P and Fitch investors services ?

   A. Credit worthiness
   B. Credit Worth
   C. Credit line
   D. Ratings

8. Which market is called Bear market ?

   A. Market with upward and stock prices.
   B. Market with a prolonged period of falling stock prices
   C. A very big market
   D. A very big industrial market

9. The motive for holding money that encourages investors to hold bonds when interest rates are low, with the hope of selling them when interest rates are high, is the ?

   A. Transactions motive
   B. precautionary motive
   C. profit motive
   D. speculation motive

10. Assume identical interest rates on comparable securities in the United States and foreign countries. Suppose investors anticipate that in the future the U.S dollar will depreciate against foreign currencies. investment funds would tend to ?

    A. flow from the United States to foreign countries
    B. flow from foreign countries to the United States
    C. remain totally in foreign countries
    D. remain totally in the United States