What was the highest AOL's stock opened on the NYSE in 2000?

Business Trivia / September 22, 2024

80.5. AOL acquired Time-Warner in 2000 to create the world's largest media company.

The nominal interest rate is unadjusted for what?

Business Trivia / September 21, 2024

Inflation. Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services over a period of time.

Options on interest rate swaps are called what?

Business Trivia / September 21, 2024

Swaptions. A "swaption" is an option granting its owner the right but not the obligation to enter into an underlying swap.

Montgomery Ward opened its first retail store in which city?

Business Trivia / September 20, 2024

Plymouth, Indiana. Founded as the world's first mail order business in 1872, Montgomery Ward closed all of its retail stores and catalog operations by early 2001.

Which US State had the lowest unemployment rate in July 2018?

Business Trivia / September 20, 2024

Hawaii. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US unemployment average in 2018 was 3.7%.

What "protective device" did Joseph Glidden invent in 1873?

Business Trivia / September 19, 2024

Barbed Wire. The invention of barbed wire changed forever the American West.