FINANCIAL MARKETS
- You were given one of these countries with a relevant stock market and Fixed Rate
market: USA, UK, Germany, Greece, Singapore, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, France,
Canada, China, Italy, Holland. - Identify its degree of the following variables over the past 20 years and draw
relationships between: - Government debt and corporate debt vs GDP
- length of government and corporate debt in years to maturity (ST 0-2 years, and
LT 5, 10, 20, 30 years) - % of Eurobonds of the public and corporate debt of listed companies in the
country’s stock exchange - Government bonds credit ratings on Fitch, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s rating
agencies, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Euronext - Foreign Exchange rate vs other main currencies such as, USD, Euro, GBP, JPY,
and / or CHF - stock market performance vs interest rates and GDP growth, using country stock
exchange index value (NYSE, DAX, CAC, MIL, IBEX, AEX, LSE, BOVESPA,
Bolsa Mexicana, etc…)
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GROUP Exercise
Team up in groups of 4 or 5 people - Assess the economic performance and sustainability taking into consideration
the country GDP, government debt and corporate debt as well as performance
of the stock exchange, interest rates and GDP groth - Do you need other information to complement your assessment? If so which
one? - If you had the ability to decide which indicators to focus on, would you
measure other variables than the variables that Governments, Financial
Markets, Rating Agencies and International Organizations are currently
measuring? If Yes, which ones? Why?, If No, why not?
Sample Solution
most pathetic point”.[17] Having an open mind does not hurt; we should prepare ourselves for the “iffies” of life. Surprisingly, many will have an open mind about things that benefits them directly: Remember that first date that Didn’t go well? Yet we went on date #2, 3, 4, and sometimes 5 before we cut that crazy loose. Not ever date will turn out that way, but we would be more cautious next time, wouldn’t we? It’s on that premise that we should have an open mind about the infallibility of the man written Bible as a book riddled with thought provoking and eye rolling mistakes does happen. The Songs of Solomon are amorous and foolish, but has been called “divine anointed or wise”., They are placed after the Book of Ecclesiastes and claim to have been written in B.C 1014. It has been recorded and proven that Solomon was 19 years old at this time and had His palace filled with concubines and wives. Solomon was therefore enjoying honeymoon on a daily basis and so caught up in his feelings that he had no time to think consciously before writing. Sam Harris asked a very direct in your face question when He asked “Who put the good in the Good Book? This is a serious question that requires lot of research and explaination.Because even if a belief in God and the Bible has a reliable positive effect upon human behavior; this is not a reason to believe that it is infallible. A belief in the infallibility of the Bible is a belief in God and thus the infinite nature of God. However there is still no proof that the stories in the bible are true and thus the Doctrine of “Christianity” remains a mystery.[18] The bible outlines that the Israelites were Gods chosen people. If they were, why couldn’t He correct them, why were they so unruly? These folks that he selected choose and branded as His “Chosen people “were extremely corrupted and did nothing but laugh at God. As Thomas Paine puts it, “Jews had invented to cover the baseness of their own characters, and which Christian priests sometimes as corrupt, and often as cruel, have professed to believe>
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