Managers at the Bank of Quebec are afraid that the bank will not have enough reserves at the end of the business day to meet withdrawals tomorrow. It currently has two options to borrow money overnight. First, it could borrow money from the Bank of Canada (BOC) at a rate of 0.75%. Second, it could borrow money from other banks at a rate of 0.25%. 1. What is the overnight rate?
2. What is the bank rate?
3. What would happen to other short-term interest rates if the Bank of Canada increases its overnight rate target?
A. They should remain unchanged.
B. They would become irrelevant.
C. They would decrease.

Which of the following is most likely to lead to a general decrease in wages? a. elastic demand b. public goods c. an economic recovery d. immigration 2b2t

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

The cost of the beginning work in process inventory was comprised of $3,000 of direct materials, $10,000 of direct labor, and $10,000 of factory overhead. costs incurred during the period were comprised of $15,000 of direct materials costs, and $100,000 of conversion costs. the equivalent units of production (eup) for the period were 9,000 for direct materials and 6,000 for conversion. the costs per eup were: