One of the difficulties of engaging in global trade is the constant shift in exchange rates. How much do exchange rates change over a 20-day period? Research this by choosing five currencies (say, U. S. dollar, the euro, the British pound, the Japanese yen, the Saudi Arabian riyal) and recording their exchange rates relative to Bangladeshi Taka for 20 days. The rates are available on the Internet at Yahoo Finance’s Currency Center ( http://finance. yahoo. com/ currency ). At the end of the tracking period, choose a Bangladeshi company and describe what effects the currency shifts you noted might have on this company’s trade with any three of the countries or areas whose currency you chose.

The text states, “the committee anticipates that it will be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate when it has seen further improvement in the labor market….” why would the committee raise the federal funds rate as the labor market improves?

In december of 2004, the company you own entered into a 20-year contract with a grain supplier for daily deliveries of grain to its hot dog bun manufacturing facility. the contract called for "10,000 pounds of grain" to be delivered to the facility at the price of $100,000 per day. until february 2017, the supplier provided processed grain which could easily be used in your manufacturing process. however, no longer wanting to absorb the cost of having the grain processed, the supplier began delivering whole grain. the supplier is arguing that the contract does not specify the type of grain that would be supplied and that it has not breached the contract. your company is arguing that the supplier has an onsite processing plant and processed grain was implicit to the terms of the contract. over the remaining term of the contract, reshipping and having the grain processed would cost your company approximately $10,000,000, opposed to a cost of around $1,000,000 to the supplier. after speaking with in-house counsel, it was estimated that litigation would cost the company several million dollars and last for years. weighing the costs of litigation, along with possible ambiguity in the contract, what are three options you could take to resolve the dispute? which would be the best option for your business and why?

Is exploiting a distinctive competence or improving efficiency for competitive advantage. (a) cooptation (b) coalition (c) competitive intelligence (d) competitive aggression (e) smoothing