What is meant by diversifying an investment portfolio? What are the advantages of diversification?
What will be an ideal response?
Diversification means that investors spread their investment across more than one asset. Diversification allows investors to reduce risk as individual assets are hit by different economic shocks. Putting a little bit of money in all of these different investment baskets reduces exposure to any single shock.
A-head: DIVERSIFICATION
Concept: Diversification
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Each month the CPI is calculated by
A) recording the new prices and making no other calculation. B) multiplying the current cost of the CPI market basket by the base period cost and then dividing by 100. C) subtracting the base period cost of the CPI market basket from the current cost and then dividing by 100. D) dividing the current cost of the CPI market basket by the base period cost and then multiplying by 100. E) subtracting the current period cost of the CPI market basket from the base period cost and then multiplying by 100.
Between August 2007 and July 2008, Brazil exported more than 3.5 billion pounds of coffee to the rest of the world. Suppose the Brazilian government subsidizes the export of coffee by $0.42 per pound
Which of the following would be an outcome of this subsidy? A) Brazilian producers experience an increase in producer surplus. B) Brazilian consumers experience an increase in consumer surplus. C) Producers from the rest of the world experience a gain in producer surplus. D) Brazilian coffee exports would decrease.