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V99-02 15 Mar 2019, 10:36
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" to have confidence in someone" is also a correct idiom which means:-
to trust someone; to know that someone will be true.

Example : (1) I have confidence in you, and I know you will do well. (2) Randy tends not to have confidence in anyone.

Hence, all the tree sentences are grammatically correct !
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V99-02 28 Mar 2019, 20:35
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If it is written like "market is confident that...", i guess then it would sound correct.
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V99-02 06 May 2019, 10:45
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either you have confidence in something or you are confident about something. IMO this is a poor quality question.
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V99-02 06 May 2019, 11:02
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How can I view the source for this question?

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V99-02 29 Jun 2019, 19:31
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A and B both sound good. I'm not sure if this is a good question or a bad question.

The slight problem with B is that it implies the firm has already come back from losses before. If someone or something has an ability, it means they've done something a lot of times to have that experience. Choice B implies that the firm has already suffered loss in leverage in the past, yet it has the ability to pull itself out of that situation. If you have confidence in your favorite basketball's team to come back after being down twenty points, most likely you are basing this confidence on past events.

Choice A implies a more likely situation.

The thing I don't like about SC questions like these, however, is that without a longer passage, we don't know if the author intended to say that the firm has come back from losses before, or if this would be the first time for the firm to do such a thing. Some of the hardest SC questions, in my opinion, would not be so hard if we had more context. How are we supposed to know if Choice A or B is reality? How do we know which is more likely to be true? Again, I'm not sure how to side on the acceptability of this question.
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I think this is a high-quality question and the explanation isn't clear enough, please elaborate. there is no explanation. why not B ?
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I think this is a poor-quality question and I don't agree with the explanation. Answer choice B is grammatically correct and "confidence in" is the correct idiom. Answer choice A is has a different meaning than choice B, though it is also correct.
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I think this is a poor-quality question and the explanation isn't clear enough, please elaborate. Please elaborate on why B and C are not correct. "has confidence in" is a correct expression.
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Usage of 'that' after a verb is needed if there is confusion over whether the statement after the verb could be considered the object of the verb rather than a description. In this example, the reader could be confused that the market had confidence in the firm. This is different than confidence that the firm will do something.
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I guess that eliminates C but B still seems to be correct IMO
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Can you please look into this question ?

Both Option A and B looks correct to me, but the official answer is A. Can you please help me understand why choice B is incorrect.

Thanks for your time.
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I think this is a poor-quality question and the explanation isn't clear enough, please elaborate.
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bb Please explain why B is not the answer
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I think this is a high-quality question and the explanation isn't clear enough, please elaborate. found a& b correct hence took C as answer. this is confusing and not correct solution
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I think this is a poor-quality question and the explanation isn't clear enough, please elaborate.
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If the action is in the firm and not in it's ability, then choice C will be considered as a right answer. Because both A and C speak to the firm as an actor and not it's ability.

I think the moderators should give an in-dept explanation to this answer choice "A". It is ambiguous; reason being concise is not suitable.

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I think this is a poor-quality question and the explanation isn't clear enough, please elaborate.
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I think this is a high-quality question and I agree with explanation.
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