Choose one of the things below and describe the past, present and/ or future trend without saying which one it is. Can you partner guess which one you are describing?
The consumer price index (= Inflation)
Food prices
Commodity prices
The age of retirement
The number of retired people
The value of government pensions, unemployment benefit or other welfare payments
Life expectancy
Medical expenses
People without medical insurance
The birth rate
The population
The population of one particular age group
The percentage of people graduating from high school, going to university etc.
Market share of one company, product or country
The workforce of one company, factory or office
The number of big insider trading or other financial fraud cases
Days lost to industrial action
Outsourcing
The stock market
The stock price of one particular company
Unemployment
Unemployment for one particular age group
The long term unemployed
Residential property prices
Commercial property prices
Income tax
VAT (= Value Added Tax)
Corporate tax
Capital gains tax
Government debt
Consumer debt
The headline/ base interest rate
Credit card debt
Credit card interest rates
Rate of bankruptcies
Dividends
The dividend of one particular company
The number of patents
Imports
Exports
The balance of trade
One particular sector of imports or exports
Trade surplus/ deficit
Consumer confidence
Inventories
Inventories in one particular company or sector
The number of people investing in the stock market
The number of IPOs
The number of companies owned by hedge funds
The number of companies or shares owned by foreign sovereign capital funds
The amount of money in one or all sovereign capital funds
How do new companies raise capital in your country? Is that changing? Can you thinking of any other ways of obtaining money to start a new business?
Listen to tapescript 5.2 on page 41 of Market Leader Intermediate New Edition and note down the three ways he of raising cash that he mentions.
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