Essays on Financial markets

In order to find the endeavor value and recovery rates for each category of creditors implied by the April 2009 attempted exchange offer. we foremost had to find the precedence degrees of the capital construction. We used Exhibit 7 in the Case papers to find the precedence degrees of each category. The top precedence category…

Interest rate parity is a no-arbitrage condition representing an equilibrium state under which investors will be indifferent to interest rates available on bank deposits in two countries.  The fact that this condition does not always hold allows for potential opportunities to earn riskless profits from covered interest arbitrage. Two assumptions central to interest rate parity…

Money as a medium of exchange is an item that buyers give to sellers when they want to purchase goods or services. An example of how I use money as a medium of exchange is simple. Every week when I do my grocery shopping, I give the cashier money, whether it is in the form…

Municipal bonds have a notable advantage because they are not subject to taxes. While the interest rates on municipal bonds may seem lower compared to other long-term securities like Treasury bills and CDs, the tax benefits can offset this discrepancy. To demonstrate this, let’s consider a few examples. If you are in the 25 percent…

Multiples analysis is easy to comprehend and implement but can be influenced by accounting manipulation. Acquiring a truly comparable large sample of firms is challenging. Multiples analysis looks at historical/current data to determine multiples, focusing on relative value instead of the intrinsic value provided by DCF valuation. DCF analysis calculates intrinsic value by using firm-specific…

1. How has Diageo historically managed its capital structure? Diageo sought to maintain the low-debt (conservative) financial policies of the Guinness and Grand Met with goals to keep * its interest coverage ratio (EBITDA / Interest Payments) between 5 and 8 and * its EBITDA / Total Debt around 30-35% Although not quite as conservative…

Brenan admitted similar fears n interviews with David Weasel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal and author of In Fed We Trust. The fact that the global economy is no longer uncontrollably spiraling downward (for 2010, the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts growth of 2. 7 percent for the world and 1. 8 percent for…

The transaction exposure component of the foreign exchange rates is also referred to as a short-term economic exposure. This relates to the risk attached to specific contracts in which the company has already entered that result in foreign exchange exposures. A company may have a transaction exposure if it is either on the buy side…

How is the policy portfolio of Harvard determined? What are the three major plus categories in the portfolio as of May 1999? Internally. by the HMC. The Board of the corp determined the Pol Port. but the mgmt. was permitted to do short-term determinations within certain restraints. HMC. considered 3 things when looking at plus…

Bank OneIn 1929, Commercial National and City National Bank of Commerce of Columbus, Ohio, merged to form City National Bank and Trust. City National offered the first Visa credit card outside of California in 1966; it also created the first drive-up bank, and was one of the first banks to use ATMs. A holding company…