Economics for financial markets
Successful trading, speculating or simply making informed decisions about financial markets means it is essential to have a firm grasp of economics. Financial market behaviour revolves around economic concepts, however the majority of economic textbooks do not tell the full story.To fully understand...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Boston :
Butterworth-Heinemann
2002.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Quantitative finance series.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627400506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Economics for Financial Markets; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. What do you need to know about macroeconomics to make sense of financial market volatility?; The big picture; Financial markets and the economy; Gross national product and gross domestic product; Monetarism and financial markets; The quantity theory of money - the basis of monetarism; How money affects the economy - the transmission mechanism; The modern quantity theory - modern monetarism; Monetarism and Federal Reserve operating targets from 1970 to the present
- The Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU)Chapter 2. The time value of money: the key to the valuation of financial markets; Future values - compounding; Present values - discounting; Bond and stock valuation; Simple interest and compound interest; Nominal and effective rates of interest; Chapter 3. The term structure of interest rates and financial markets; Functions of interest rates; Determination of interest rates, demand and supply of funds; International factors affecting interest rates; Price and yield - a key relationship; The term structure of interest rates
- Determination of forward interest ratesThe yield curve; Unbiased expectations theory; Liquidity preference theory; The market segmentation theory; The preferred habitat theory; Chapter 4. How can investors forecast the behaviour of financial markets? The role of business cycles; The cyclical behaviour of economic variables: direction and timing; The stages of the business cycle; The role of inventories in recessions; The business cycle and monetary policy; How does monetary policy affect the economy?; Fundamental analysis, the business cycle, and financial markets
- The NBER and business cyclesHow do you identify a recession?; The American business cycle: the historical record; The Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) - a new target for the Federal Reserve; What is the future of the business cycle?; Chapter 5. Which US economic indicators really move the financial markets?; Gross national product and gross domestic product; GDP deflator; Producer price index (PPI); The index of industrial production; Capacity utilization rate; Commodity prices; Crude oil prices; Food prices; Commodity price indicators: a checklist
- Consumer price index (CPI)Average hourly earnings; The employment cost index (ECI); Index of leading indicators (LEI); Vendor deliveries index; Chapter 6. Consumer expenditure, investment, government spending and foreign trade: the big picture; Car sales; The employment report; The quit rate; Retail sales; Personal income and consumer expenditure; Consumer instalment credit; Investment spending, government spending and foreign trade; Residential fixed investment; Non-residential fixed investment; Inventory investment; Government spending and taxation; Budget deficits and financial markets
- Foreign trade
