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by Indradeep » Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:20 am
One view of the economy contends that a large drop in oil prices should eventually lead to lowering interest rates, as well as lowering fears about inflation , a rally in stocks and bonds, and a weakening of the dollar

(B) a lowering of interest rates and of fears about inflation,
(C) a lowering of interest rates, along with fears about inflation,
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by iamcste » Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:46 am
Indradeep wrote:One view of the economy contends that a large drop in oil prices should eventually lead to lowering interest rates, as well as lowering fears about inflation , a rally in stocks and bonds, and a weakening of the dollar

(B) a lowering of interest rates and of fears about inflation,
(C) a lowering of interest rates, along with fears about inflation,
Pls post the full question

May be you give us only the wrong ones :P
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by niraj_a » Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:58 am
lowering of looks odd here...between the two i would choose B
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by hwiya320 » Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:48 am
Indradeep wrote:One view of the economy contends that a large drop in oil prices should eventually lead to lowering interest rates, as well as lowering fears about inflation , a rally in stocks and bonds, and a weakening of the dollar

(B) a lowering of interest rates and of fears about inflation,
(C) a lowering of interest rates, along with fears about inflation,
Are you sure these 3 are the only "a lowering" choices? between the 3, I picked B...

Reason for picking B is because
a lowering...OF, a rallY(?) IN, a weakning ..OF

parallism.

what is the OA?
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by VodkaBoy » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:06 pm
The answer is B.
In B items are parallel:
"a lowering of interest rates and of fears about inflation, a rally in stocks and bonds, and a weakening of the dollar...

In C "along with fears" is not parallel to "a lowering of interest rates"
"a lowering of interest rates, along with fears about inflation (what about these fears? are they lowering or increasing or staying the same???)..."
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