Futures & Options Market

1.

Which one is/was NOT a market economy in the past 50 years?

Group of answer choices

Mexico

Colombia

Yugoslavia

Italy

Singapore

2.

What is the main difference between market makers and speculators?

Group of answer choices

Speculators take on risk, market makers don’t.

Market makers take on risk, speculators don’t.

Market makers are public entities, whereas speculators are private entities.

Market makers exploit price differentials to make a profit, speculators don’t.

3.

Which of the following are Central Banks?

Group of answer choices

The Exchequer

Banxico

Bundesbank

People’s Bank of China

The U.S. Treasury

Caixa Bank

4.

Which of the following are part of the mandate of the U.S. Federal Reserve?

Group of answer choices

Conducting monetary policy

Regulating financial institutions

Managing systemically-important retirement funds

Containing Systemic Risk

House a trading market for government-backed securities

Overseeing the U.S. payment’s system

5.

You are a gasoline refiner. You convert crude oil into gasoline and other refined products. What is your position on gasoline? and on crude?

Group of answer choices

Long on gasoline, short on crude oil

Long on gasoline, long on crude oil

Short on gasoline, short on crude oil

Short on gasoline, long on crude oil

I have no risk since I am not buying/selling my inputs/outputs on the financial markets.

I have no risk since gasoline and crude oil prices are correlated.

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