Indicate whether the following events might cause stocks in general to change price, and whether they might cause big widget corp.'s stock to change price:
a. the government announces that inflation unexpectedly jumped by 2 percent last month.
b. big widget's quarterly earnings report, just issued, generally fell in line with analysts' expectations.
c. the government reports that economic growth last year was at 3 percent, which generally agreed with most economists' forecasts.
d. the directors of big widget die in a plane crash.
e. congress approves changes to the tax code that will increase the top marginal corporate tax rate. the legislation had been debated for the previous six months.

Electronics assembly inc. is a contract manufacturer that assembles consumer electronics for a number of companies. currently, the operations manager is assessing the capacity requirements as input into a bid for a job to assemble cell phones for a major global company. the company would assemble three models of cell phones in the same assembly cell. setup time between the phones is negligible. electronics assembly inc. operates two 8-hour shifts for 275 days per year. cell phone demand forecast (phones/year) processing time (minutes/phone) mars 47,000 19.8 saturn 35,000 20.7 neptune 7,500 16.2 a. calculate total capacity required by line. b. determine the total operating time available. c. calculate the total number of assembly cells. (round up your answer to the next whole number.)

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Paying attention to the purpose of her speech, which questions can she eliminate? a. 1 and 2 b. 3 c. 2 and 4 d. 1-4