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LG 7-9. List the major mortgage holders in the United States.
LG 7-10. Describe the trends in the international securitization of mortgages.
1. What the function of a lien placed on a mortgage contract is ?
2. When private mortgage insurance is required for a mortgage ?
3. What the difference is between an insured mortgage and a conventional mortgage ?
4. What the typical mortgage maturity is ?
5. What jumbo mortgages are ?
6. Which loans should have the highest yields — loans sold with recourse or loans sold without recourse ?
7. The three forms of mortgage loan securitization ? What are the major differences in the three forms ?
8. Why an investor in a securitized asset who is concerned about prepayment risk would prefer a CMO over a pass - through security ?
9. Who the major holders of mortgages are in the United States?
10. Why mortgage companies hold such a small portion of the mortgage market on their balance sheets?
11. What the international trends in securitization of assets have been ?
2. What are the four major categories of mortgages and what percentage of the overall market does each entail? ( LG 7-2 )
4. Explain the difference between a federally insured mortgage and a conventional mortgage. ( LG 7-3 )
6. What is a jumbo mortgage? ( LG 7-5 )
9. How did the U.S. secondary mortgage markets evolve?( LG 7-1 )
10. What is a mortgage sale? How does a mortgage sale differ from the securitization of mortgage? ( LG 7-6 )
11. How did mortgage-backed securities contribute to the recent financial crisis? ( LG 7-1 )
12. What is a pass-through security? ( LG 7-7 )
15. Describe a collateralized mortgage obligation. How is a CMO created? ( LG 7-8 )
16. What is a mortgage-backed bond? Why do financial institutions issue MBBs? ( LG 7-1 )
1. What is the current dollar value of mortgage loans outstanding? How has this value changed since 2010 as reported in Figure 7–1 ?Go to the Federal Reserve Board’s Web site at
2. Calculate the percentage of mortgage loans outstanding comprised of 1- to 4-family, multifamily residential, commercial, and farm loans.Go to the Federal Reserve Board’s Web site at
LG 8-1. Identify the major characteristics of common stock.
LG 8-2. Identify the major characteristics of preferred stock.
LG 8-3. Examine the process by which common stock is issued in primary stock markets.
LG 8-4. Describe the major secondary stock markets.
LG 8-5. Examine the process by which a trade takes place in the stock markets.
LG 8-6. Recognize the major stock market indexes.
LG 8-7. Know who the major stock market participants are.
LG 8-8. Explain the three forms of market efficiency.
LG 8-9. Describe the major characteristics of international stock markets.
1. What common stock is?
2. What some of the drawbacks are of dividends paid on common stock from the stockholder’s point of view?
3. What the difference is between cumulative voting and straight voting of the board of directors?
4. What preferred stock is? How preferred stock is similar to common stock and bonds?
5. What the purpose of a rights offering is?
6. What the major secondary stock markets in the United States are?
7. What the major U. S. stock indexes are?
8. Who the major holders of stock are?
9. What age group of individual investors holds the largest percentage of stock outstanding?
10. Whether movements in stock market indexes are always accurate predictors of changes in economic activity?
11. What the differences are among weak form, semistrong form, and strong form market efficiency?
12. What is the purpose of regulations imposed on stock market participants by the SEC?
13. What percentage of the world’s capital markets are represented by U.S. stocks?
14. What an ADR is?
9. What are the major U.S. stock market indexes? ( LG 8-6 )
10. Who are the major holders of corporate stock? ( LG 8-7 )
11. Are stock market indexes consistently accurate predictors of economic activity? ( LG 8-8 )
12. Describe the three forms of stock market efficiency. ( LG 8-8 )
13. What are circuit breakers used in the context of stock market trading and volatility? ( LG 8-5 )
14. What is an ADR? How is an ADR created? ( LG 8-9 )
4. Using a Spreadsheet to Calculate Stock Returns: At the beginning of the year, you purchased a share of stock for $50. Over the year the dividends paid on the stock were $4.50 per share. Calculate
5. Use the information in the following stock quote to calculate McKesson’s earnings per share over the last year. ( LG 8-5 )(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15)Name
6. Use the information in the following stock quote to calculate Abercrombie & Fitch’s earnings per share over the last year. ( LG 8-5 )(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14)
1. What is the market value of common stock currently outstanding? Calculate the percentage change in this value since 2010, reported in Figure 8–1 .Go to the Federal Reserve Board’s Web site and
2. What is the percentage of common stock outstanding issued by nonfinancial corporate businesses, financial corporations, and the rest of the world?Go to the Federal Reserve Board’s Web site and
LG 9-1. Understand what foreign exchange markets and foreign exchange rates are .
LG 9-2. Identify the world’s largest foreign exchange markets .
LG 9-3. Know what the euro is and how/why it was created .
LG 9-4. Distinguish between a spot foreign exchange transaction and a forward foreign exchange transaction .
LG 9-5. Calculate return and risk on foreign exchange transactions .
LG 9-6. Describe the role of financial institutions in foreign exchange transactions .
LG 9-7. Identify the relations among interest rates, inflation, and exchange rates .
1. How the Bretton Woods Agreement affected the ability of foreign exchange rates to fluctuate freely ?
2. What the euro is ?
3. What the difference is between a spot and forward foreign exchange market transaction ?
4. The two ways in which an FI manager can hedge foreign exchange risk ?
5. What the advantages are for an FI that hedges foreign exchange risk with forward contracts (as opposed to hedging this risk on the balance sheet) ?
6. What the four major foreign exchange trading activities are that financial institutions perform ?
7. What the term purchasing power parity means ?
8. What the interest rate parity condition is? How it relates to the existence or nonexistence of arbitrage opportunities ?
2. How are foreign exchange markets open 24 hours per day?( LG 9-2 )
5. Bankone issued $200 million worth of one-year CD liabilities in Brazilian reals at a rate of 6.50 percent. The exchange rate of U.S. dollars for Brazillian reals at the time of the transaction was
7. East Bank has purchased a 5 million one-year Swiss franc(Sf ) loan that pays 6 percent interest annually. The spot rate of U.S. dollars for Swiss francs is 0.9691. It has funded this loan by
8. What is the net interest income earned in dollars on this one-year transaction if the spot rate of U.S. dollars for Sfs and U.S. dollars for C$s at the end of the year are 0.9825 and 0.9588,
10. excel Using a Spreadsheet to Calculate Foreign Exchange Risk: Suppose that on January 18, 2012, a U.S. firm plans to purchase 3 million euros’ (€)worth of French bonds from a French FI in one
16. Assume that annual interest rates are 8 percent in the United States and 4 percent in Switzerland. An FI can borrow (by issuing CDs) or lend (by purchasing CDs) at these rates.The spot rate is
17. States and 4 percent in Turkey. An FI can borrow (by issuing CDs) or lend (by purchasing CDs) at these rates. The spot rate is $0.6624/Turkish lira (TL). ( LG 9-7 )If the forward rate is
18. The following table lists balance of payment current accounts for Country A. ( LG 9-1 )Current Accounts 1. Exports of goods, services, and income $168,953 2. Goods, adjusted, excluding military
1. Calculate the net foreign exchange exposure of U.S. banks to the Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, Swiss franc, British pound, and the euro.Go to the Financial Management service of the United States
2. What do the values say about the foreign exchange exposure of U.S. banks to these currencies?Go to the Financial Management service of the United States Treasury at www.fms.treas.gov and find the
LG 10-1. Distinguish between forward and future contracts.
LG 10-2. Understand how a futures transaction is conducted.
LG 10-3. Identify information that can be found in a futures quote.
LG 10-4. Recognize what option contracts are.
LG 10-5. Examine information found in an options quote.
LG 10-6. Know the main regulators of futures and options markets.
LG 10-7. Describe an interest rate swap.
LG 10-8. Understand caps, floors, and collars.
LG 10-9. Identify the biggest derivative securities markets globally.
1. What the differences are between a spot contract, a forward contract, and a futures contract?
2. What the major futures exchanges in the United States are?
3. What position traders, day traders, and scalpers are?
4. When a futures trader would buy(long) a futures contract? Sell(short) a futures contract?
5. What the difference is between a call option and a put option?
6. When an option trader would want to buy a call option on a stock?
7. When an option trader would want to buy a put option on a stock?
8. What the three types of options traded in the United States are?

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