Money & financial markets

Q12(a) Define what a forward market is, as mentioned in the extract on rising cocoa prices.

Q3 Identify which role money performs, given $5.8 trillion circulating in the USA in 2022.

Q3 Choose the item traded ahead of delivery at one-month to one-year terms (Furniture / Currencies / Smartphones / Clothing).

Q9 Explain one function financial markets perform, referring to Thai household saving and bank lending in 2022.

Q1 Identify a function performed by financial markets (collecting tax revenue / helping consumers minimise utility / channelling funds to individuals and businesses / supplying public goods)

Q2 Which of gold, housing, higher education or street lighting is the good most plausibly having a forward market?

Q14 Assess what financial markets contribute to an economy, given 2019 Sweden, where households saved 16.5% of income, owed 189% of it, and made 349 debit card payments each.

Q3 Which of copper, housing, designer clothing or tablet computers would most plausibly be traded on a forward market?

Q3 Select which listed role money actually performs (preventing bubbles; making consumers feel valued; minimising utility; allowing payment to be deferred).

Q9 With Singapore's 2017 exports equal to 173.3% of GDP, set out one function financial markets serve in that kind of economy.