1. The tendency of stocks newly added to the S&P composite index to rise in price due to a large number of buy orders as funds add the stock to their portfolios is called the S&P ..........

2. As demand for metals lurched lower and layoffs swelled, the once pulsing industrial belt that stretches from Illinois across to western New England took on the grim, ground-down demeanor of a half-century earlier, acquiring the glumly descriptive epithet of .......... Bowl.

3. Once a firm's stock becomes substantially .......... managers who wish to eliminate this are faced with disappointing the capital markets.

4. An angel investor's .......... money is sometimes the only way a business can get off the ground; this type of financing can create growth that would be impossible through traditional financing channels.

5. IT managers often must promise a higher rate of return to justify technology investments than other corporate departments; in some organizations, the .......... rate for a project to pass the funding threshold may exceed 30% to 50%.

6. Fannie Mae's 15-year mortgage-backed securities and Bilbo Baggins's friends are called ..........

7. The settlement price for a weather futures contract is calculated by summing .......... Degree Day values for a month and multiplying that sum by $20.

8. An .......... stock is one whose price suddenly plunges; the fall is usually caused by panicked shareholders rushing to sell after hearing unexpected bad news.

9. The .......... defense is used in a hostile takeover situation: the target firm turns around and tries to take over the company that has made the hostile bid.

10. I can imagine why that Ford manager in Michigan recently announced that they would eat their own .......... food (only Ford- or subsidiary-built vehicles are allowed to park on the plant premises); it must be discouraging to see the place swarmed every day by Daihatsus, Suzukis and Toyotas.