As a personal financial planner, one of your tasks is to prescribe the allocation of available funds across money market securities, bonds, and...

As a personal financial planner, one of your tasks is to prescribe the allocation of availablefunds across money market securities, bonds, and mortgages. Your philosophy is totake positions in securities that will benefit most from your forecasted changes in economicconditions. As a result of a recent event in Japan, you expect that in the nextmonth Japanese investors will reduce their investment in U.S. Treasury securities andshift most of their funds into Japanese securities. You expect that this shift in fundswill persist for at least a few years. You believe this single event will have a major effecton economic factors in the United States, such as interest rates, exchange rates, and economicgrowth in the next month. Because the prices of securities in the United States areaffected by these economic factors, you must determine how to revise your prescribedallocation of funds across securities.Questions1. How will U.S. interest rates be directly affected by the event (holding other factorsequal)?

As a personal financial planner, one of your tasks is to prescribe the allocation of available funds across money market securities, bonds, and mortgages. Your philosophy is to take positions in...