Hundreds of speculators conclude in May that the coming summer's corn crop will be much lower and that the November corn price will be consequently much higher than most people expect
When they act on their beliefs in the futures market, they would strive to ________ corn futures, which would tend to ________ the price of corn futures. A) sell; reduce
B) sell; raise
C) buy, reduce
D) buy; raise
D
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People demand money for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) it generates a rate of return. B) it is a medium of exchange to make payments. C) it is a store of value. D) it can meet unplanned expenditures.
One reason that a large share of the trade between high-income industrial economies is intraindustry trade is because
A) it is more advantageous than interindustry trade. B) high-income industrial economies produce in the first stage of the product cycle. C) high-income industrial economies are wealthier than developing countries. D) high-income industrial economies have dissimilar resource endowments in absolute terms. E) it allows firms to take advantage of internal economies of scale.