When a Person Sells a Common Stock Short, She or He

question 83

True/False

When a person sells a common stock short, she or he is betting that the price of the stock will fall.

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Definitions:

Maximize Utility

The economic objective of consumers to achieve the highest level of satisfaction possible from their consumption decisions, given their income and the prices of goods and services.

Marginal Utility

The additional satisfaction or benefit that a consumer derives from consuming an additional unit of a good or service.

Equilibrium

A state where supply and demand balance, and as a result, prices become stable.

Unit Price

The cost assigned to a single unit of a product or service, facilitating price comparisons among similar products based on per unit costs.