e. d. 22. When a firm assumes the risk of purchasing newly issued securities from a company and reselling those shares to investors, the firm is said to be the issue underwriting b. capitalizing securing fixing deploying 23. When an underwriting syndicate purchases an entire issue of new securities and accepts the risk of unsold shares, the underwriting is known as a _underwriting. A. Dutch auction B. full-fledge C. firm commitment D. best efforts E. guaranteed sale e. 24. b. The party responsible for regulating the financial markets in the U.S. is the a NYSE NASDAQ . Federal Reserve SEC c. d. c. 25 b. The document that is prepared as part of a security offering which details a company's financial position, its operations, and its plans for the future is called the preferred stock prospectus offering agreement d. regulatory agreement offering ng paper c. 26. The price at which a dealer will buy a security from you is called the price a. bid b. ask d. issue offer floor