ECON 3P03 Lecture Notes - Foreign Exchange Market, Financial Innovation, Business Cycle

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Why study financial markets: financial markets channel funds from savers to investors, there by promoting economic efficiency, they affect personal wealth, consumption, and the behavior of business firms. A bond is a debt security that promises to make payments periodically for a specified of time. An interest rate is cost of borrowing or the price paid for the rental of funds (usually expressed as a percentage for the rental of per year) Interest rates have a tendency to more together. This is why we can simplify our economic models by including only one interest rate. A stock is a security that represents a claim on the assets and the earnings of a corporation. Issuing stock and selling it to the public is a way for corporations to raise funds to finance their activities.

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