Preface
PART 1: Overview of the Financial Environment
1: ROLE OF FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS
1-1 Role of Financial Markets
1-2 Securities Traded in Financial Markets
1-3 Role of Financial Institutions
1-4 Credit Crisis for Financial Institutions
PART 2: The Fed and Monetary Policy
2: MONETARY POLICY
2-1 Mechanics of Monetary Policy
2-2 Implementing Monetary Policy
2-3 Trade-off in Monetary Policy
2-4 Monitoring the Impact of Monetary Policy
2-5 Global Monetary Policy
PART 3: Debt Security Markets
3: MONEY MARKETS
3-1 Money Market Securities
3-2 Institutional Use of Money Markets
3-3 Valuation of Money Market Securities
3-4 Globalization of Money Markets
4: BOND MARKETS
4-1 Background on Bonds
4-2 Treasury and Federal Agency Bonds
4-3 Municipal Bonds
4-4 Corporate Bonds
4-5 Globalization of Bond and Loan Markets
4-6 Other Types of Long-Term Debt Securities
5: BOND VALUATION AND RISK
5-1 Bond Valuation Process
5-2 Explaining Bond Price Movements
5-3 Sensitivity of Bond Prices to Interest Rate Movements
5-4 Bond Investment Strategies
5-5 Valuation and Risk of International Bonds
6: MORTGAGE MARKETS
6-1 Background on Mortgages
6-2 Types of Residential Mortgages
6-3 Valuation of Mortgages
6-4 Mortgage-Backed Securities
6-5 Credit Crisis
PART 4: Equity Markets
7: STOCK OFFERINGS AND INVESTOR MONITORING
7-1 Private Equity
7-2 Public Equity
7-3 Initial Public Offerings
7-4 Stock Offerings and Repurchases
7-5 Stock Exchanges
7-6 Monitoring Publicly Traded Companies
7-7 Market for Corporate Control
7-8 Globalization of Stock Markets
8: STOCK VALUATION AND RISK
8-1 Stock Valuation Methods
8-2 Required Rate of Return on Stocks
8-3 Factors That Affect Stock Prices
8-4 Stock Risk
8-5 Risk-Adjusted Stock Performance
8-6 Stock Market Efficiency
8-7 Foreign Stock Valuation and Performance
9: MARKET MICROSTRUCTURE AND STRATEGIES
9-1 Stock Market Transactions
9-2 How Stock Transactions Are Executed
9-3 High Frequency Trading
9-4 Regulation of Stock Trading
9-5 Trading International Stocks
PART 5: Derivative Security Markets
10: FINANCIAL FUTURES MARKETS
10-1 Background on Financial Futures
10-2 Interest Rate Futures Contracts
10-3 Stock Index Futures
10-4 Single Stock Futures
10-5 Risk of Trading Futures Contracts
10-6 Globalization of Futures Markets
11: OPTION MARKETS
11-1 Background on Options
11-2 Determinants of Stock Option Premiums
11-3 Speculating with Stock Options
11-4 Hedging with Stock Options
11-5 Options on ETFs and Stock Indexes
11-6 Options on Futures Contracts
11-7 Options as Executive Compensation
11-8 Globalization of Options Markets
12: SWAP MARKETS
12-1 Background
12-2 Types of Swaps
12-3 Risks of Interest Rate Swaps
12-4 Pricing Interest Rate Swaps
12-5 Performance of Interest Rate Swaps
12-6 Interest Rate Caps, Floors, and Collars
12-7 Credit Default Swaps
12-8 Globalization of Swap Markets
13: FOREIGN EXCHANGE DERIVATIVE MARKETS
13-1 Foreign Exchange Markets
13-2 Factors Affecting Exchange Rates
13-3 Forecasting Exchange Rates
13-4 Foreign Exchange Derivatives
13-5 International Arbitrage
PART 6: Commercial Banking
14: COMMERCIAL BANK OPERATIONS
14-1 Background on Commercial Banks
14-2 Bank Sources of Funds
14-3 Bank Uses of Funds
14-4 0ff-Balance Sheet Activities
14-5 International Banking
15: BANK REGULATION
15-1 Regulatory Structure
15-2 Regulation of Bank Operations
15-3 Regulation of Capital
15-4 How Regulators Monitor Banks
15-5 Government Rescue of Fa