1. Your new boyfriend/girlfriend works for a major oil company. At dinner one night he advises you that his company is seeking to acquire a regional wind energy company on the east coast. and secret negotiations between the two companies are taking place. He urges you to buy stock in the wind energy company - not his company. If you buy the stock and the acquisition occurs, greatly increasing the value of your investment, can you be prosecuted for insider trading? Why? Why not? 2. Examine the five considerations in your text on p. 503 that pertain to stock market investment. Which would be most important to you? Why?

3. Explain the concept of the "internet of things".

4. In short term financing, what is a factor? Why do businesses sell their accounts receivable to factors? ons 5. Explain the difference between common stock and preferred stock. If you had a chance to buy stock in a very prosperous company, and both common stock and preferred stock are available, which would you buy, common stock or preferred stock? Why?

ld you obtain/fle for? 10. After reading Chapter D in your text, and If you were to receive. $150,000.00 as a surprise inheritance, how would you spend or invest it? Why?