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Unit 2: Financial Markets and Interest Rates (Continued)
Market Players............................................................................2-2
Types of Financial Markets........................................................2-2
Money Markets................................................................2-3
Capital Markets...............................................................2-3
Interest Rates...........................................................................................2-5
Calculating Interest Rates..........................................................2-6
Pure Interest Rate ...........................................................2-7
Inflation.............................................................................2-7
Risk...................................................................................2-8
Term Structure of Interest Rates..............................................2-10
Yield Curve.....................................................................2-10
Normal Yield Curve Theories.......................................2-12
Effect on Stock Prices..............................................................2-14
Unit Summary........................................................................................2-14
Progress Check 2.................................................................................2-17
Unit 3: Time Value of Money
Introduction...............................................................................................3-1
Unit Objectives........................................................................................3-1
Future Value ............................................................................................3-2
Calculating Interest Payments...................................................3-2
Simple Interest.............................................................................3-3
Practice Exercise 3.1.............................................................................3-5
Compound Interest......................................................................3-9
Discrete Compounding for Annual Periods.................3-9
Discrete Compounding for Nonannual Periods.........3-11
Continuous Compounding ...........................................3-12
Summary....................................................................................3-16
Practice Exercise 3.2...........................................................................3-17
Present Value........................................................................................3-21