For tax purposes, a capital gain is considered long term if the investment was held more than:1 day.1 month.1 year.10 years.
Since the mid-1920s inflation in the United States has averaged:About 3 percent.About 7 percent.About 10 percent.About 12 percent
The highest denomination of U.S. currency is:The $20 billThe $100 billThe $1,000 billThe $100,000 bill
Buying on margin::Precludes the advantage of using leverage.Is not affected by limits on borrowing established by ERISA.Minimizes losses if the price of a security declines.Is possible by borrowing from a broker.
A benchmark asset, commonly considered by investors to be risk-free:Treasury Bill (T-Bill).Share of preferred stock.A EurobondA junk bond.
For most Americans, taxes are due on:January 1.April 1.April 15.December 31.
The term generally used to describe the market in which prices fully reflect all available information is:The greater fool hypothesis.Random walk hypothesis.The size-effect hypothesis.Efficient markets hypothesis.
The total stock market (S&P 500) return during the 1990s was:Predicted by most Wall Street analysts at the beginning of the decade.Lower than the historical averageThe highest of any decade in the 20th century.Approximately the same as the total return during the 1970s.