Once Upon a Time by Gabriel OkaraOnce upon a time‚ son‚they used to laugh with their heartsand laugh with their eyes:but now they only laugh with their teeth‚while their ice-block-cold eyessearch behind my shadow.There was a time indeedthey used to shake hands with their hearts:but that’s gone‚ son.Now they shake hands without heartswhile their left hands searchmy empty pockets.‘Feel at home!’ ‘Come again’:they say‚ and when I comeagain and feelat home‚ once‚ twice‚there will be no thrice-for then
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Goodrich-Rabobank Interest Rate Swap Case Section AC-G9 Kurtuluz Korkmaz - Murat Ongider - Jonathan Levi - Sumita Marwah 1. Is this an attractive alternative for the savings banks? Early in 1983‚ BF Goodrich‚ diversified manufacturer of tires and related rubber products‚ needed $50M to fund its ongoing financial needs. It could have borrowed this amount from its committed bank lines‚ with borrowing cost above the prime‚ which was 10 5/8 %. It wanted borrow longer term with fix rates not to compromise
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surround various measures of employment activity. One is that unemployment rates will increase as labor force participation rates increase. Another is that as women entered the work force they replaced men. That is‚ as the Female Labor Force Participation Rate increased‚ the Male Labor Force Participation Rate decreased. Go to http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ and retrieve: 1. Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate (CIVPART)‚ Percent‚ Quarterly‚ Seasonally Adjusted‚ since 1949 2. Civilian
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Singapore Tax Rates and Income Tax System Introduction Singapore’s is one of the world’s biggest economies. Since the global financial crisis and more recently‚ the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis and the downgrading of the US credit ratings‚ many global and local investors has sought Singapore as a new safe haven for investing their wealth in and setting up businesses and regional headquarters. In 2010‚ Singapore’s economy has rebounded close to 15% year on year. Singapore‚ due to its
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P6–1 Interest rate fundamentals: The real rate of return Carl Foster‚ a trainee at an Investment banking firm‚ is trying to get an idea of what real rate of return investors Are expecting in today’s marketplace. He has looked up the rate paid on 3-month U.S. Treasury bills and found it to be 5.5%. He has decided to use the rate of change In the Consumer Price Index as a proxy for the inflationary expectations of Investors. That annualized rate now stands at 3%. On the basis of the information
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(15905149) Financial Risk Management‚ FIN3FRM Semester 2‚ 2012 Assignment 1 Q.1 An investor enters into a short forward contract to sell 100‚000 British pounds for U.S. dollars at an exchange rate of 1.9000 U.S. dollars per pound. How much does the investor gain or lose if the exchange rate at the end of the contract is (a) 1.8900 and (b) 1.9200? (2 points) Solutions: a) The investor as part of obligation for selling pounds‚ because of his obligation
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of Interest Rate Risk Supporting Document to the New Basel Capital Accord Issued for comment by 31 May 2001 January 2001 Superseded document Superseded document Table of contents SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................................. 1 I. SOURCES AND EFFECTS OF INTEREST RATE RISK ............................................................. 5 A. SOURCES OF INTEREST RATE RISK ....
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(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.[1] 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 are capital mobility and perfect substitutability of domestic and foreign assets. Given foreign exchange market equilibrium
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1. HOW IS UNEMPLOYMENT MEASURED? Based on my research (Abs.gov.au‚ 2015)‚ the Australian Labour Market Statistics (July 2014); the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) measures the unemployment rate in Australia. The data came and it is published monthly from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) in Labour Force‚ Australia (cat. no. 6202.0). And are described by many attributes such as age; sex; marital status; geography; country of birth duration of job search. An individual is said to be employed if he
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The Rate of a Reaction Chemical Kinetics is the area of Chemistry that is concerned with the speed‚ rate or mechanism at which a chemical reaction occurs. Reaction Rate is the change in the concentration of a reactant or product with time (i.e. M/s). It measures how fast a reactant is consumed and how fast a product is formed. 1.2 WRITING RATE EXPRESSIONS Consider the following hypothetical reaction. A + 2B ( 3C + D Rate = - rate of consumption of A = -[pic]rate of
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