Larry is studying productivity in an office, and decides to use a survey to collect data on how productive his employees are. In addition to using the survey, Larry records how many deliverable items each employee completes in a week and checks to see if productivity scores on the survey are associated with the number of deliverable items the employee completes. By doing this, what is Larry checking

The treasurer for pittsburgh iron works wishes to use financial futures to hedge her interest rate exposure. she will sell five treasury futures contracts at $139,000 per contract. it is july and the contracts must be closed out in december of this year. long-term interest rates are currently 7.30 percent. if they increase to 9.50 percent, assume the value of the contracts will go down by 20 percent. also if interest rates do increase by 2.2 percent, assume the firm will have additional interest expense on its business loans and other commitments of $149,000. this expense, of course, will be separate from the futures contracts. a. what will be the profit or loss on the futures contract if interest rates increase to 9.50 percent by december when the contract is closed out