This company declared bankruptcy, shutting down 4000 stores across U.S.
What is RadioShack?
100
This company has agreed to buy BG Group for about $70B, creating the largest independent LNG maker.
What is Royal Dutch Shell?
100
In December 2014, this metric dropped the first time since 2009 due to lower energy costs, aggravating deflationary concerns of Euro.
What is EuroZone CPI?
100
This San-Francisco based company revealed its plan in early May to raise over $1.5B in funding, expecting the funding to value the company at $50 billion or higher.
What is Uber?
100
This trend leads to companies beating earnings expectations but missing revenue targets in Q1 2015.
What is strong dollar?
200
This company was under scrutiny in the EU under allegations of tax evasion.
What is Starbucks?
200
Cardinal Health bought this division of Johnson & Johnson for $1.9 billion.
What is heart health business?
200
This group of countries’ ForEx reserves fell in 2014, due to the their declining competitiveness, and strong U.S. dollar’s mitigating effect on exposure to dollar loans.
What is Emerging Markets (EM)?
200
This country’s debt demonstrates an inverted yield curve in the past few months.
What is Greece?
200
S&P cut this country’s credit rating to junk (BB+), putting more downward pressure on its currency.
What is Russia?
300
This sector continues to be the best performing sector in 2015, amounting an average of 8% increase in shares across companies throughout S&P.
What is Healthcare?
300
This large health company bought Catamaran for $13 billion in cash.
What is UnitedHealthcare?
300
In January 2015, Due to strong employment figures, the Federal Reserve changed its stance on keeping interest rates low from ___ to ___.
What are "for a considerable time" and "patient"?
300
In February 2015, this company issued the largest euro-denominated bond (€8.5 billion) from an American firm.
What is Coca Cola?
300
In which month of 2015 did oil hit its lowest mark since 2009?
What is March?
400
This company’s stock soared more than 10% on 4/24, its largest surge in six years. It thus became the 3rd largest company in the world in terms of market cap.
What is Microsoft?
400
Springleaf Holdings acquired this company’s OneMain Financial for roughly $4.25 billion, becoming the US’s largest subprime mortgage lender.
What is Citibank?
400
Due to the movements of U.S. dollar, this metric climbed 17% m-o-m in December, 2014.
What is U.S. trade deficit?
400
On 5/10, this country made the third interest cut in six months.
What is China?
400
A drop in this commodity caused Australian dollar to fall due to concerns over the dependence of Australia on this commodity.
What is Iron?
500
This dining chain’s share value has tripled since its IPO in January. Please answer using its ticker.
What is SHAK (Shake Shack)?
500
Valeant Pharmaceuticals boughted this company in order to expand into the gastrointestinal treatment market.
What is Salix Pharmaceuticals?
500
In Q1 2015, China’s GDP fell to ___% y-o-y, the lowest quarterly expansion since 2009? The answer should contain one decimal place.
What is 7.0?
500
This was the yield of Germany’s 3.28 billion euro sale of 5 year bonds in February.
What is -0.08%?
500
This exchange planned to release this kind of futures contract in March to take advantage of oil gluts.