1. Property pledged to a lender to guarantee payment in the event the borrower defaults is called _____.
lost property
liquid assets
insolvency
collateral
2. Morton Company obtains a one-year loan of 2,000,000 Japanese yen at an interest rate of 6 percent. At the time the loan is extended, the spot rate of the yen is $.005. If the spot rate of the yen at maturity of the loan is $.0035, what is the effective financing rate of borrowing yen?
a. 37.8 percent
b. 51.43 percent
c. - 25.8 percent
d. - 6 percent