LEADER 05266nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910784338303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-01383-8 010 $a9786611013837 010 $a0-08-049463-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000350640 035 $a(EBL)296778 035 $a(OCoLC)213298443 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000143622 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134735 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000143622 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10134080 035 $a(PQKB)10406119 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL296778 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10180799 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL101383 035 $a(CaSebORM)9780750653848 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC296778 035 $a(PPN)17024752X 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000350640 100 $a20040622d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEconomics for financial markets$b[electronic resource] /$fBrian Kettell 210 $aOxford ;$aBoston $cButterworth-Heinemann$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (375 p.) 225 1 $aQuantitative finance series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7506-5384-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [335]-359) and index. 327 $aFront Cover; Economics for Financial Markets; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. What do you need to know about macroeconomics to make sense of financial market volatility?; The big picture; Financial markets and the economy; Gross national product and gross domestic product; Monetarism and financial markets; The quantity theory of money - the basis of monetarism; How money affects the economy - the transmission mechanism; The modern quantity theory - modern monetarism; Monetarism and Federal Reserve operating targets from 1970 to the present 327 $aThe Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU)Chapter 2. The time value of money: the key to the valuation of financial markets; Future values - compounding; Present values - discounting; Bond and stock valuation; Simple interest and compound interest; Nominal and effective rates of interest; Chapter 3. The term structure of interest rates and financial markets; Functions of interest rates; Determination of interest rates, demand and supply of funds; International factors affecting interest rates; Price and yield - a key relationship; The term structure of interest rates 327 $aDetermination of forward interest ratesThe yield curve; Unbiased expectations theory; Liquidity preference theory; The market segmentation theory; The preferred habitat theory; Chapter 4. How can investors forecast the behaviour of financial markets? The role of business cycles; The cyclical behaviour of economic variables: direction and timing; The stages of the business cycle; The role of inventories in recessions; The business cycle and monetary policy; How does monetary policy affect the economy?; Fundamental analysis, the business cycle, and financial markets 327 $aThe NBER and business cyclesHow do you identify a recession?; The American business cycle: the historical record; The Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) - a new target for the Federal Reserve; What is the future of the business cycle?; Chapter 5. Which US economic indicators really move the financial markets?; Gross national product and gross domestic product; GDP deflator; Producer price index (PPI); The index of industrial production; Capacity utilization rate; Commodity prices; Crude oil prices; Food prices; Commodity price indicators: a checklist 327 $aConsumer price index (CPI)Average hourly earnings; The employment cost index (ECI); Index of leading indicators (LEI); Vendor deliveries index; Chapter 6. Consumer expenditure, investment, government spending and foreign trade: the big picture; Car sales; The employment report; The quit rate; Retail sales; Personal income and consumer expenditure; Consumer instalment credit; Investment spending, government spending and foreign trade; Residential fixed investment; Non-residential fixed investment; Inventory investment; Government spending and taxation; Budget deficits and financial markets 327 $aForeign trade 330 $aSuccessful trading, speculating or simply making informed decisions about financial markets means it is essential to have a firm grasp of economics. Financial market behaviour revolves around economic concepts, however the majority of economic textbooks do not tell the full story.To fully understand the behaviour of financial markets it is essential to have a model that enables new information to be absorbed and analysed with some predictive implications. That model is provided by the business cycle. 'Economics for Financial Markets' takes the reader from the basics of financia 410 0$aQuantitative finance series. 606 $aMoney market 615 0$aMoney market. 676 $a332.4 700 $aKettell$b Brian$0632788 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784338303321 996 $aEconomics for financial markets$93734538 997 $aUNINA