Using the annual report to discuss the company's outstanding bonds; how many and what kind of bonds are outstanding; identify when they were issued, discuss the rating of these bonds and what that means, do a current valuation of the bonds or if there are many bonds, select a sample of these bonds and valuate them using the current rate of return in the market; what does the value tell you?

Walmart has five bonds issues maturing over the next twelve months. The total principal amount is 4.195 billion with coupon rates ranging from .75% to 7.25%. the annual coupon payments on the 5 billion of newly issued paper are nearly 59 billion per year lower than the coupon payments for the 4.1 billion of paper maturing over the coming year.

2. Discuss the data in your research that deals with stock (prices, volume, symbol, etc.); discuss the historical prices of these stocks; valuate the stock and compare it to the market price of the stock; explain the possible reasons for being undervalued or overvalued; complete an investor return on these stocks; how is the investor's return compared to some index (i.e. S&P 500);

3. Identify any futures, options and swaps that your company has utilized to hedge risk for the organization; discuss the opportunities the derivative securities markets might provide for this particular organization. How might managers use them to reduce risk to their organization?Provide an example of what the company is doing with the use of derivatives. Give enough explanation so that anyone reading your report can understand the organization and their use of derivatives.

In addition, you will want to report anything that you feel is pertinent to the content in this course, Financial Markets. This also means incorporating information from your reading assignments as well as any other outside sources that might give you some insight into the organization's use of financial