What is the market?
A. 9.73 bid, offered at 10.14. B. 9.81 bid, offered at 10.10. C. 9.95 bid, offered at 10.02.
26. Consider the following limit order book for a stock. The bid and ask sizes are number of shares in hundreds
A new buy limit order is placed for 300 shares at ￥123.40. This limit order is said to:
A. take the market. B. make the market. C. make a new market.
27. Currently, the market in a stock is limit order is placed at $54.62. This limit order is said to: A. take the market. B. make the market. C. make a new market.
28. Jim White has sold short 100 shares of Super Stores at a price of$42 per share. He has also simultaneously placed a Assume that if the stop condition specified by White is satisfied and the order
becomes valid, it will get executed. Excluding transaction costs, what is the maximum possible loss that White can have? A. $800. B. $1,300. C. Unlimited.
29. You own shares of a company that are currently trading at $30 a share. Your
technical analysis of the shares indicates a support level of $27.50. That is, if the price of the shares is going down, it is more likely to stay above this level rather than fall below it. If the price does fall below this level, however, you believe that the price may continue to decline. You have no immediate intent to sell the shares but are concerned about the possibility of a huge loss if the share price declines below the
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support level. Which of the following types of orders could you place to most appropriately address your concern? A. Short sell order.
B. Good-till-cancelled stop sell order. C. Good-till-cancelled stop buy order.
30. In an underwritten offering, the risk that the entire issue may not be sold to the public at the stipulated offering price is borne by the: A. issuer.
B. investment bank.
C. buyers of the part of the issue that is sold.
31 . A British company listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange, announced the sale of 6,686,665 shares to a small group of qualified investors at ￡0.025 per share. Which of the following best describes this sale?
A. Shelf registration. B. Private placement. C. Initial public offering.
32. A German publicly traded company, to raise new capital, gave its existing
shareholders the opportunity to subscribe for new shares. The existing shareholders could purchase two new shares at a subscription price of