A repurchase agreement, or repo for short, is a type of short-term loan much used in the money markets, whereby the seller of a security agrees to buy it back at a specified price and time. The seller pays an interest rate, called the repo rate, when buying back the securities.

There are a total of 21 stock exchanges in India, with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) being the largest. Both offer stocks with volume and opportunity as India and the exchanges continue to grow and attract foreign investment.

The Reserve Bank of India changes the cash reserve ratio from time- this is a true statement. Cash reserve ration is one of the quantitative methods of controlling credit creation capacity of the commercial bank. During inflation, Cash reserve ration is raise in order to reduce the money supply in an economy to check inflation and vice-versa.

A cheque is dishonored by both non payment as well as partial payment. A cheque gets dishonored when the bank fails to pay the mentioned amount to payee. When the cheque deposited by anybody for collection or presented for payment gets refused by the bank, it is known as dishonor of cheque.

State Bank of India was originally known as Imperial Bank. Imperial Bank of India, 1955, was renamed on 30 April 1955 to the State Bank of India. Imperial Bank was established on 1921. Now, State Bank of India is one of the largest commercial banks of India.

An endorsement is said to be Partial endorsement, if the endorser purports to transfer to the endorsee only a part of the amount payable. In simple terms, endorsement which allows transferring to the endorsee a part of the amount payable is known as partial endorsement.

An entry strategy in which a firm maintains its production facilities within its home country and transfers its products for sale in foreign markets is known as exporting. Exporting can be defined as the act or process of sending goods and services to a foreign country for sale. Exporting helps to upgrade the rate of economic growth.

The process by which allocation of funds is done is called financial intermediation. This process helps to channelize funds from the borrowers to lenders. Financial intermediation generally cause reduction in transaction cost. This process is mainly performed by the financial intermediaries, such as stockbroker, commercial bank, investment bank, etc.

Certificates of deposit (CD) help to mobilize a large amount of money for short periods- this is a true statement. CDs are freelyy negotiable. It can be issued for a period of 91 days to 1 year. It is generally issued at a discount on the actual amount of deposits held.

Holders of assets can readily sell their financial assets through the mechanism of the financial market. This is because financial markets provide liquidity to Financial Assets. Liquidity of financial assets means that financial assets can be converted into cash in a short time, with little or no loss in value.

The financial market contributes towards the nation's economic growth and development. This statement is True. 
Reasons : 
(a) The place where people and institutions borrow money are brought together with those having surplus funds, is called a Financial Market.
(b) The financial market contributes to national growth by facilitating continuous flow of surplus fund to business enterprises (sick and deficit units) through its allocative function ensuring higher rate of return to the savers/household by investing the scarce resources in the enterprises having higher productivity, increasing the rate of capital formation. 
(c) The financial market contributes a lot to the development of the entreprenurial class by financing their business requirements. It obtain funds from individual households private and public sector units. Central govt. etc. and supply these funds to those business units who need it for productive purpose.
(d) The components of Financial Market is money market and capital market. It helps in accelerating the rate of industrial and economic development of the country. As a result, the standard of living and social welfare goes up. Thus, Financial market contributes towards the nations growth and development.

Primary market deals with the issue of new securities. That is, through the primary market a company raises capital directly from the borrowers. That is, once the securities are issued in primary market, they are then traded in the secondary market. It is in this sense that both the markets complement each other

`Deep market is one where there are always sufficient orders for buying and selling at fine quotations, both below and above the market price, and where there are good opportunities for swap deals.

The strategy adopted by the developing countries to strengthen the domestic industries by an providing lot of protection to domestic industry in the form of heavy tarrifs/ restrictions on imports is called the inward oriented strategy.

Integration of financial markets involves the freedom and opportunity to raise funds from and to invest anywhere in the world, through any type of instrument. All the given factors are responsible for Integration of financial markets. 

Wilcox proposed that the net liquidation value of the firm is the best indicator of its financial health. The net liquidation value can be obtained by the difference in liquidation value of a firms assets and the liquidation value of its liabilities.

Long-term decisions involve setting up of the firm, expansion, diversification modernization and other similar capital expenditure decisions requiring huge investment made by raising long-term sources, the benefits of which can be seen only in the long term. Because of the huge investments involved these decisions are irreversible.

Factoring is a financial service under which the factor undertakes collection, accounting and management of the client's debt. Thus the factor is an intermediary between the supplier and the customers who performs financing and debt collection services.

Sick industrial company is company registered for not less than five years which has to the end of any financial year, accumulated losses equals to or exceeding its entire net worth.

The most important and visible effect of globalization and integration of financial markets is the increase in volatility in:
1. Interest rates
2. Exchange rates &
3. Prices of financial assets change quite frequently in response to various changes taking place in different segments of the financial markets  all over the world.

The strategy adopted by the developing countries to strengthen the domestic industries by an providing lot of protection to domestic industry in the form of heavy tarrifs/ restrictions on imports is called the inward oriented strategy. Thus the main feature of the inward oriented strategy is to lay stress on domestic production.

A cosmopolitan city is a city that has a high diversity of population with the high number of population with a better life style than a village which suggests that it is a city of great wealth too.

Apna bazar is an example of consumer's co-operative society. A consumer cooperative can be defined as a cooperative business owned by its customers for their mutual benefit. This type of cooperative business is service oriented rather than pecuniary profit.

Product development strategy involves the substantial modification of existing products or the creation of new but related products that can be marketed to current customers through established channels. It helps in the process of expansion of the existing business. Product development strategy can be defined as a process of bringing a new innovation to consumers from concept to testing through distribution.