1. As the financial manager in developing forecast for the firm, where would you go to in order to start your forecast and refine it with more accurate future projections concerning interest rates, raw material prices, and the like to build your estimates?
2. Discuss the cointegration relationship in econometrics and the co-movement of certain non-stationary financial and economic variables, for example, dividends and prices, inflation and nominal interest rates, and industrial production and stock market returns.