In Metallgesellschaft's Hedging Debacle the company arranged long term forward contracts to sell oil/energy. Their hedge was to sell short-term futures contracts and roll into new months(called a stacked hedge). The hedge turned out poorly for MG because the stacked hedge works when markets are in backwardation and the basis risk resulted in negative profit between the selling the futures and delivering in the forwards. What is true about the activities of Metallgesellschaft's hedging I. sources of risk were basis risk and liquidity risk
II. losses on the short term futures contracts hedge would not be covered by the long term forwards
III. the stacked hedge works when markets are in contango
IV. Metallgesellschaft used a 1 to 1 hedge when they should have used an optimal hedge ratio

a. I, II, III, IV
b. I, II, IV
c. I, III
d. I, III, IV

Which type of data is generally stored in different file formats, such as text files, spreadsheets, and so on?

Instructions: use the following information to construct the 2000 balance sheet and income statement for carolina business machines. round all numbers to the nearest whole dollar. all numbers are in thousands of dollars. be sure to read the whole problem before you jump in and get started. at the end of 1999 the firm had $43,000 in gross fixed assets. in 2000 they purchased an additional $14,000 of fixed asset equipment. accumulated depreciation at the end of 1999 was $21,000. the depreciation expense in 2000 is $4,620. at the end of 2000 the firm had $3,000 in cash and $3,000 in accounts payable. in 2000 the firm extended a total of $9,000 in credit to a number of their customers in the form of accounts receivable. the firm generated $60,000 in sales revenue in 2000. their cost of goods sold was 60 percent of sales. they also incurred salaries and wages expense of $10,000. to date the firm has $1,000 in accrued salaries and wages. they borrowed $10,000 from their local bank to finance the $15,000 in inventory they now have on hand. the firm also has $7,120 invested in marketable securities. the firm currently has $20,000 in long-term debt outstanding and paid $2,000 in interest on their outstanding debt. over the firm's life, shareholders have put up $30,000. eighty percent of the shareholder's funds are in the form of retained earnings. the par value per share of carolina business machines stock is

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentences in the given passage explains the limitations of monetary policies? monetary policies - limitationsmonetary policies are set by the central bank to bring about growth in the economy. de can be achieved these policiesw at anden i sca poit would be fair to say that changes in the economy cannot be brought about instantly by monetary po des. monetary policy can only influence not control, economic growththe monetary policy makers do work on sining the perfect balance between demand and supply of money in the economy