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Questions and Answers of Financial Markets Institutions

What the interest rate parity condition is? How it relates to the existence or nonexistence of arbitrage opportunities? LO.1
What the term purchasing power parity means? LO.1
What the four major foreign exchange trading activities are that financial institutions perform? LO.1
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)? LO.1
The two ways in which an FI manager can hedge foreign exchange risk? LO.1
What the difference is between a spot and forward foreign exchange market transaction? LO.1
What the euro is? LO.1
How the Bretton Woods Agreement affected the ability of foreign exchange rates to fluctuate freely? LO.1
What an ADR is? LO.1
What percentage of the world’s capital markets are represented by U.S. stocks? LO.1
The purpose of regulations imposed on stock market participants by the SEC? LO.1
What the differences are among weak form, semistrong form, and strong form market efficiency? LO.1
Whether movements in stock market indexes are always accurate predictors of changes in economic activity? LO.1
What age group of individual investors is the most active in the stock market? LO.1
Who the major holders of stock are? LO.1
What the major U.S. stock indexes are? LO.1
What the major secondary stock markets in the United States are? LO.1
What the purpose of a rights offering is? LO.1
What preferred stock is? How preferred stock is similar to common stock and bonds? LO.1
What the difference is between cumulative voting and straight voting of the board of directors? LO.1
What some of the drawbacks are of dividends paid on common stock from the stockholder’s point of view? LO.1
What common stock is? LO.1
What the international trends in securitization of assets have been? LO.1
Why mortgage companies hold such a small portion of the mortgage market on their balance sheets? LO.1
Who the major holders of mortgages are in the United States? LO.1
Why an investor in a securitized asset who is concerned about prepayment risk would prefer a CMO over a pass-through security? LO.1
The three forms of mortgage loan securitization? What are the major differences in the three forms? LO.1
Which loans should have the highest yields—loans sold with recourse or loans sold without recourse? LO.1
What jumbo mortgages are? LO.1
What the typical mortgage maturity is? LO.1
What the difference is between a federally insured mortgage and a conventional mortgage? LO.1
When private mortgage insurance is required for a mortgage? LO.1
What the function of a lien placed on a mortgage contract is? LO.1
What sovereign bonds are? LO.1
What Eurobonds are? LO.1
What group of market participants is the major issuer of international debt? LO.1
The major currencies in which international bonds are denominated? LO.1
What events can cause yield spreads on bond securities to change? LO.1
Who the major purchasers of bond market securities are? LO.1
What factors are used to determine a firm’s bond issue rating? LO.1
What the characteristics are that differentiate corporate bonds? LO.1
What the difference is between a firm commitment and a best-efforts bond issue offering? LO.1
What the difference is between a general obligation bond and a revenue bond? LO.1
What the process is through which Treasury notes and bonds are issued in the primary markets? LO.1
What a STRIPS security is? LO.1
What the different classifications of bonds are? Describe each. LO.1
What the differences are between a Eurodollar CD and Eurocommercial paper? LO.1
Which currencies most international money market instruments are issued in? LO.1
What the relation is between the federal funds rate and the LIBOR? LO.1
What the major U.S. money market securities held by foreign investors are? LO.1
What services brokers and dealers provide for money market participants? LO.1
Which money market securities commercial banks issue? LO.1
Who the major money market participants are? LO.1
What the process is by which a banker’s acceptance is created? LO.1
Why the negotiable CD market was created? LO.1
What securities are mainly used as collateral in repurchase agreements? LO.1
What the two types of federal funds transactions are? Describe each. LO.1
What federal funds are? LO.1
How Treasury bills are first issued? LO.1
What characteristics of a discount yield prevent it from being directly compared to a bond equivalent yield? LO.1
Why it is difficult for individual investors to be involved in the initial sale of a money market security? LO.1
What the three characteristics common to money market securities are? LO.1
The monetary policy measures taken by central banks to address the recent worldwide financial crisis? What were they? LO.1
Why the simultaneous targeting of the money supply and interest rates is sometimes impossible to achieve? LO.1
What actions the Federal Reserve can take to contract the U.S. economy?Describe how each affects money supply, credit availability, interest rates, and security prices. LO.1
What actions the Federal Reserve can take to promote economic expansion?Describe how each affects money supply, credit availability, interest rates, and security prices. LO.1
Why the Federal Reserve is unique in its ability to change the money supply through monetary policy tools? LO.1
What the impact is on credit availability and the money supply if the Federal Reserve purchases securities? LO.1
What the major policy tools used by the Federal Reserve to influence the economy are? LO.1
What the main assets and liabilities of the Federal Reserve are? LO.1
How the FOMC implements monetary policy? LO.1
What the main responsibilities of the Federal Reserve Board are? LO.1
What the main functions of Federal Reserve Banks are? LO.1
What the relationship is between the duration of a bond and its price elasticity? LO.1
Which has the longest duration: a 30-year, 8 percent yield to maturity, zerocoupon bond, or a 30-year, 8 percent yield to maturity, 5 percent coupon bond? LO.1
What the duration of a zero-coupon bond is? LO.1
What the numerator of the duration equation measures? LO.1
What the denominator of the duration equation measures? LO.1
When the duration of an asset is equal to its maturity? LO.1
Whether a high or low coupon rate bond experiences a larger price change if interest rates decrease? LO.1
Whether a high or low coupon rate bond experiences a larger price change if interest rates increase? LO.1
What happens to a bond’s price sensitivity for a given change in interest rates as its time to maturity increases? decreases? LO.1
What happens to a bond’s price as it approaches maturity? LO.1
What happens to the fair present value of a bond when the required rate of return on the bond decreases? LO.1
What happens to the fair present value of a bond when the required rate of return on the bond increases? LO.1
The difference between constant growth in dividends and supernormal growth in dividends? LO.1
How stock valuation differs from bond valuation? LO.1
How the difference between the yield to maturity on a bond and the coupon rate on the bond will cause the bond to sell at a premium or a discount? LO.1
What the differences are among a discount bond, a premium bond, and a par bond? LO.1
The difference between a zero-coupon bond and a coupon bond? LO.1
The difference between the coupon rate on a bond and the realized rate of return on a bond? LO.1
The difference between a required rate of return and an expected rate of return? LO.1
What should happen to the future value of an annuity stream of cash flows as interest rates increase? LO.1
What should happen to the present value of a lump sum cash flow as interest rates increase? LO.1
How an implied forward rate can be obtained from current short- and long-term interest rates? LO.1
What a forward rate is? LO.1
What the three explanations are for the shape of the yield curve? Discuss each and compare them. LO.1
What term structure of interest rates means? LO.1
What should happen to a security’s equilibrium interest rate as the security’s liquidity risk increases? LO.1
What the difference is between inflation and real risk-free rates? LO.1

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