1. Select the two reasons that global financial markets are important to borrowers

2. The 1922 Fordney­McCumber Act raised U.S. tariffs to historically high levels

3. Approximately 50 percent of all world trade is conducted through regional trade agreements

4. The Foreign Exchange Market is a physical and virtual institutionalized structure whereby currency of one country is exchanged to currency of another country

5. If a currency price is expected to rise in the future, what is the higher price a buyer pays?

6. Which of the following is not an industrial product exchanged within the global financial market?

7. Which of the following is NOT a problem ECOWAS faces?

8. Use the FX market to facilitate international business activities

9. The             Market has gradually evolved into the largest, fastest, and most flexible currency trading market in the world

10. Preferential Trade Areas are suitable in cases where economic structures in signatory nations complement one another and trade in products that do not compete with each other

11. Two most popular products traded on the security exchange markets are stocks and bonds.

12. The most prominent major financial markets are located

13. The majority of transactions on the FX include operations with the Euro, where one party sells or buys dollars using other world currencies

14. Which of the following is the order of the stages of regional economic integration?

15. All of the following are EU Member countries except

16. OPEC was founded in 1960 in Baghdad

17. The goals of the The Lomé Convention are threefold: (1) the reduction and eventual eradication of poverty in Signatory Island and land­locked nations, (2) sustainable economic development in Signatory Island and land­locked nations, and (3) the gradual integration of signatory countries into the world economy

18. Primary guardians of national currencies and usually responsible for setting monetary policy and exchange rate policy

19. The European Community established its Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) in 1979 and formed the initial steps for the creation of a single European currency

20. The participation in a trading bloc leads to the minimization of duplication, thin spreading of resources, and wasteful competition.

21. Mercosur was established in 1991 with the intent of increasing the competitiveness of its five member nations' economies through the use of research on economic development. Full-member nations include Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela

22. Regional integration is the process whereby countries remove barriers to trade between themselves, but each country determines its own barriers against nonmembers

23. ANCOM was established in 1990 with the Agreement of Cartagena, or Andean Pact, between Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Chile

24. The ________ of the world have become highly interdependent because of improvements in ________ and transportation technologies and the lowering of barriers to trade.

25. CACM was established in 1960 between

26. Reasons that global financial markets are important to lenders

27. Approximately 50 percent of all world trade is conducted through regional trade agreements.

28. Currency arbitrage means buying a currency in one market at a low price and reselling moments later in another market at a higher price

29. With 11 beginning members in 1952, the European Union has now grown to a total of 28 members

30. Generally the market makers on the foreign exchange

31. The OTC Market has gradually evolved into the largest, fastest, and most flexible currency trading market in the world

32. Which of the following is true concerning the IMF?