Given the following data on bond yields:

This Year Last Year
Yield on top-rated corporate bonds 9.3% 9.8%
Yield on intermediate-grade corporate bonds 11.8 11.3

a. Calculate the confidence index this year and last year. (Round your answers to 4 decimal places.)

Confidence Index
This Year
Last Year

b. Is the confidence index increasing or decreasing?

Increasing
Decreasing

Kando company incurs a $9 per unit cost for product a, which it currently manufactures and sells for $13.50 per unit. instead of manufacturing and selling this product, the company can purchase product b for $5 per unit and sell it for $12 per unit. if it does so, unit sales would remain unchanged and $5 of the $9 per unit costs assigned to product a would be eliminated. 1. prepare incremental cost analysis. should the company continue to manufacture product a or purchase product b for resale? (round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

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Select the correct answerwhat is the responsibility of each of the twelve federal reserve's banks in their districts? a.they set the prime rateob.they monitor functioning of banks in their through onsite and offsite reviewsc.they assess taxes in their destnictd.they write fiscal policies