If a Financial Manager with an Interest Liability on a Future

question 44

Multiple Choice

If a financial manager with an interest liability on a future date were to sell Futures and interest rates end up going up, the position outcome would be:

• A) Futures price falls; short earns a profit.
• B) Futures price rises; short earns a loss.
• C) Future price falls; long earns a loss.
• D) Futures price rises; long earns a profit.

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Definitions:

Consumption Function

A formula that expresses the relationship between total consumption and gross national income.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Aggregate Income

The total income earned by all factors of production in an economy, including wages, rents, interest, and profits.

Aggregate Consumption

The total amount of goods and services consumed in an economy, often used to analyze economic health and growth.