The president of a Mexican company recently remarked, "Business in Mexico is done on a consensus basis, very genteel and sometimes slow by U. S. standards." A few months later, the Mexican company and its U. S. joint venture partner parted company. Judging by the president's remark, one important reason for the "divorce" was:

What is the percentage change in price for a zero coupon bond if the yield changes from 6.56.5% to 5.55.5%? the bond has a face value of $1 comma 0001,000 and it matures in 1010 years. use the price determined from the first yield, 6.56.5%, as the base in the percentage calculation?

The treasurer for pittsburgh iron works wishes to use financial futures to hedge her interest rate exposure. she will sell five treasury futures contracts at $139,000 per contract. it is july and the contracts must be closed out in december of this year. long-term interest rates are currently 7.30 percent. if they increase to 9.50 percent, assume the value of the contracts will go down by 20 percent. also if interest rates do increase by 2.2 percent, assume the firm will have additional interest expense on its business loans and other commitments of $149,000. this expense, of course, will be separate from the futures contracts. a. what will be the profit or loss on the futures contract if interest rates increase to 9.50 percent by december when the contract is closed out

Any point on a country's production possibilities frontier represents a combination of two goods that an economy: