ECON 2035 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Interest Rate, Money Supply, Foreign Exchange Market

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22 Apr 2016
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Financial markets- markets in which funds are transferred from people who have an excess of available funds to people who have a shortage. Activities in financial markets also have direct effects on personal wealth, the behavior of businesses and consumers, and the cyclical performance of the economy. Assets - and financial claim or piece of property that is subject to ownership. Security- a claim on the issuer"s future income or assets. Bond- a debt security that promises to make payments periodically for a specified period of time. The bond market is especially important to economic activity because it enables corporations and governments to borrow to finance their activities and because it is where interest rates are determined. Interest rate- the cost of borrowing or the price paid for the rental of funds (usually expressed as a percentage of the rental of per year.

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