Summary: Practice Of Financial Markets

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  • Bond Market

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  • Primary issuers of securities on Capital Market

    1. Federal and local governments: debt issuers
    2. Corporations: equity and debt issuers
  • Treasury bill, note and bond

    Type                                   Maturity
    Treasury bill                     < 1 year
    Treasury note                  1 - 10 years
    Treasury bond                 10 years

    • No default risk -> Treasury prints money to payoff debt  
    • Low interest rates
  • Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS)

    Principal amount tied to current rate of inflation to protect purchasing power
  • Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal Securities (Treasure STRIPS)

    Coupon and principal payments are stripped from a T-Bond and sold as individual zero-coupon bonds
    • Coupon bond stripped in coupon part and principal part -> prices should be equal (otherwise arbitrage) 
  • Purpose financial guarantees

    Timely payment of interest and principal, backed by insurance companies
    • Issuers lower risk of debt -> lower interest rate, but fee 
  • Credit Default Swap (CDS)

    Buying insurance on your neighbor's house -> ethical problems
    • Creditors might be better of with default than non-default 
  • Current yield of a bond

    i = C / P
  • Duration of a bond

    • Maturity up -> duration up
    • Interest rate up -> duration down
    • Coupon rate up -> duration down
    • Duration is additive: is weighted average of durations of individual securities, with weights equaling proportion of portfolio invested in each security
  • What drives bond prices?

    1. Market conditions
    2. Ratings
    3. Age of bond
  • Stock Market

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  • Electronic Communication Networks (ECN)

    Allow traders and brokers to trade without need of middleman
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