Portfolio Management and Investment Risk
1. Which one of the following returns is the average return you expect to earn in the future on a risky asset?
Expected return
2. What is the extra compensation paid to an investor who invests in a risky asset rather than in a riskfree asset called?
Risk premium
3. A group of stocks and bonds held by an investor is called which one of the following?Portfolio
4. The value of an individual security divided by the portfolio value is referred to as the portfolio:Weight
5. Diversification is investing in
Options Trading: A Comprehensive Guide
1. The value of an option is dependent upon the value of the underlying security. This relationship defines an option as which one of the following?
Derivative security
2. A call option grants its owner which one of the following?
Right to buy
3. By definition, a put option grants its owner which one of the following?
Right to sell
4. Which one of the following is defined as the price at which an option will be exercised?
Strike
5. Which one of the following distinguishes an option as an American style
Read MoreAnalyzing Poetry: A Comprehensive Guide
Is the Poem an Obvious Fantasy?
Consider the intense confrontation in Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and the setting of Rita Dove’s “Geometry”.
Mood and Tone of the Poem
Mood
Is the poem cheerful or mysterious, ominous, or brooding, as with Randall Jarrell’s “Sad Heart at the Supermarket”? Does the mood change within the body of the work, as with Joy Harjo’s “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window”? Why does the mood shift? Where does the shift begin?
Tone
Is the poet’s tone satiric, serious, playful,
Read MoreMedieval English Literature: A Journey Through Time
Mead-hall
structure built by an Anglo-Saxon lord as a social center for his community. A lord would gather his warriors at this place to eat, drink, pass out gifts and treasure, and renew the oath-bonds between himself and his men. The story of Beowulf includes a Mead-Hall called Heorot that was so big and had so much laughter that the monster Grendel broke in.Retainer group of soldiers which are the king’s favorites, and they are who accompany the king in battles. They swear devotion to
Read MoreRailroad Operating Rules: Restricted Speed, Time, and Authority
Restricted Speed
Restricted Speed – A speed that allows stopping within ½ the range of vision short of: Train, Engine, Railroad Car, Men or Equipment fouling the track, stop signal, or derail or switch lined improperly. The crew must keep a lookout for broken rail and not exceed 20 mph. Rules may be issued, canceled, or modified by track bulletin, general order, or special instructions.
Time
Time– Not vary by correct time by more than 30 seconds.
Employees
Employees must not use radio to give info
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// Written in the first person narrative point of view, the poem “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka is a poetic satire against the widely-spread racism in the modern Western society.
The poem is about a telephone conversation in England between the poetic persona seeking to rent a house and an English landlady who completely changes her attitude towards him after he reveals his identity as a black African.
The motif of a microcosmic telephone conversation, therefore, is employed by the