Factors That Cause the Demand Curve for Bonds to Shift

question 96

Multiple Choice

Factors that cause the demand curve for bonds to shift to the left include

• A) a decrease in the inflation rate.
• B) an increase in the volatility of stock prices.
• C) an increase in the liquidity of stocks.
• D) all of the above.
• E) only A and B of the above.

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Definitions:

Variance

A statistical measure that quantifies the spread or dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value.

Percentile

A value in a data set below which a certain percentage of observations fall.

STDEV.P(data range)

A function in spreadsheet software that calculates the standard deviation of a dataset, considering the entire population.

STDEV.S(data range)

A statistical function in spreadsheet programs used to calculate the standard deviation for a sample set of data, indicating data variability.