Changes in Interest Rates Can Typically Affect Firms in All

question 46

Multiple Choice

Changes in interest rates can typically affect firms in all of the following ways except :

• A) The value of investments in bonds or other investment securities with fixed interest rates.
• B) The value of liabilities with fixed interest rates.
• C) The returns a firm generates from pension fund investments.
• D) The cash-equivalent value of assets invested abroad.

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