Answer:
b. Would like to compete
d. specilize in production
Explanation:
Competition is when businesses selling similar products, in the same market, try to outsell each other through winning more customers. When businesses compete, consumers benefit through fair prices and higher quality goods. Competing businesses innovate and create products with a high utility value to attract more customers. As a result, they offer customers products and services of high quality.
A business that engages in a specialization produces fewer varieties of products. It focuses on manufacturing goods and services that it has a comparative advantage. Due to specialization, the firm and its employees become experts in producing its products of choice. Consequently, it offers goods and services that are of a higher quality than a business that does not specialize.
A national health<span> insurance </span>system<span>, or single-payer </span>system<span>, in which a single government entity acts as the administrator to collect all </span>health care<span> fees, and pay out all </span>health care<span> costs. Medical services are publicly financed but not publicly provided. Canada, Denmark, Taiwan, and Sweden </span>have<span> single-payer </span>systems<span>.</span>
Answer:
(a) Dollar price of the bond = Par value × Current price percentage
= $1,000 × 106.124%
= $1,061.24
(b) Bond's current yield:
Annual interest paid in dollars = Bond par value × Rate of interest
= $1,000 × 7.8%
= $78
= 0.0734
= 7.34%
(c) Issue price of bond is $1,000 and current maturity price is $1,061.24. Thus, bond price is greater than the par value.
(d) Current yield is the return on bond at current price. Yield to maturity is 6.588 % and current yield is 7.34%. Since the current price is more than the par value, therefore, YTM is lower than the current yield.