Analyze a Market Price Accounting, Finance, SPSS Essay

Instructions
From the Wall Street Journal (or similar media) select an interest rate, currency, commodity or security and provide a 1-page briefing (double space, font size 11) that includes the following:
- Identify the rate, currency, commodity or security (“instrument”).
- State it’s current price, 52-week high price and low price.
- Discuss the divergent views of the instrument
– i.e. the “bull” (optimistic) case and the “bear” (pessimistic) case, reasons for each, and time frame.
- Give your forecast and why.

FIN 347 – WS1 – Analyze a Market Price

Learning Objective

Wall Street Journal Brief 1 (WS1) is intended apply knowledge gained from textbook and other reading to current market and economic conditions.

Instructions

From the Wall Street Journal (or similar media) select an interest rate, currency, commodity or security and provide a 1-page briefing (double space, font size 11) that includes the following:

-          Identify the rate, currency, commodity or security (“instrument”).

-          State it’s current price, 52-week high price and low price.

-          Discuss the divergent views of the instrument – i.e. the “bull” (optimistic) case and the “bear” (pessimistic) case, reasons for each, and time frame.

-          Give your forecast and why.