Which of the following is an exception during the financial crisis as an institution in that it survived the crisis?

A. IndyMac Bank

B. Lehman Brothers

C. Countrywide Financial

D. All of the above

As banks stopped lending to each other, which of these rates more than doubled:

A. Stock market returns for the DJI

B. LIBOR

C. Lehman Brothers bond rate

D. Treasury bonds rate

The world and U.S. economies recovered in 2009 following a record stock market return in January 2009, signaling an end to the financial crisis.

A. True

B. False

The 2010 Wall Street Reform and Consumer protection act gave extensive powers to the FED including all the ones given below except:

A. unprecedented power to step into any financial institution that is facing imminent collapse

B. new oversight powers and to impose conditions designed to discourage any type of financial institution from getting too big

C. Force nonbanks to take deposit insurance and thereby become members of FDIC

D. monitoring the country's biggest financial firms-those considered critical to the health of the system as a whole

One of the truths about eh exposure of U.S., Corporate Bonds in Europe is that all segments of the US market are affected similarly in the magnitude of their response to European shocks.

A. True

B. False

As per the article on U.S. Corporate Bonds and Europe, it is true that U.S. corporate bonds are exposed to European developments. Which of the following are the reasons why this happens:

A. capital markets have become much more integrated since the wave of financial globalization that started in the early 1990s

B. U.S. markets are closely tied to those in Europe

C. Individual and institutional investors buy bonds issued by foreign companies, and U.S. and multinational corporations issue debt internationally

D. All of the above