Financial Institutions and Markets Jim Wilcox Bond Yields‚ Returns‚ Risks‚ and Duration • • • • • Bonds and Loans Yields and Returns Price Volatility and Risk in Default-Free Bonds Measuring Interest Rate Risk Duration: Types‚ Calculation‚ Meaning‚ Uses • Next Time: Chapter 11 re: Duration Week # 2 January 28‚ 2014 1 Coming Soon! What We Did 1. 2. 3. 4. Week # 2 January 28‚ 2014 2 Yield to Maturity (YTM): A Result‚ Not a Cause! • YTM = percentage rate
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past customer preferences‚ in 2010 store 88 initiated a promotion to increase mid-week sales to even out demand. In the past approximately 80% of services were incurred on Friday‚ Saturday and Monday‚ compared to 20% incurred on Tuesday‚ Wednesday and Thursday. To even out the demand for services‚ the store initiated a program to decrease the service price to $18 on Tuesdays‚ Wednesdays‚ and Thursdays and increase the price to $30 on Fridays‚ Saturdays‚ and Mondays. Through careful scheduling of
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The Odyssey Theme Analysis: Love and Loyalty "Antinoos‚ it is impossible for me to turn out of doors the mother who bore me and brought me up." (p.25‚ Homer‚ The Odyssey) This quote is a direct example of love and loyalty between a mother and son. Telemachos loves his mother and will stand by her decision‚ he says he won’t force her to marry; he is loyal to her‚ which represents the idea of loyalty between family. Love and loyalty are major themes of The Odyssey that are constantly surfacing
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English 1B 19th September 2012 Love: How Is It? Life has lots of emotions: happiness‚ sorrow‚ guilt‚ frustration‚ love‚ and so on. Love is the one emotion which brings in huge changes in our lives and a different kind of emotion begins with it. How can we describe it? Describing love is very hard because in every phase of life‚ characterization of love can be varied. In childhood‚ through romantic films and stories‚ we started to get feeling that love is passionate and when people will be
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“The Return of Martin Guerre” by Natalie Zemon Davis provides the read with an interesting case of a present‚ Arnaud du Tihl‚ stealing Martin Guerre identity and almost getting away with it. The story create two campus of thought on Bertrande’s motive. One side being defended by Davis‚ and arguing she masterminded the whole plan. While Robert Finlay arguing she was innocent. Davis argument is the most believable with too many questions and too many assumption‚ and to neatly package together that
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This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor Author: Susan Wicklund Biology of Women: 1021.01 Book Review 26 September 2013 This Common Secret By: Susan Wicklund Susan‚ the main character‚ grew up in Trade Lake‚ Wisconsin. She has a daughter named Sonja who gave her great-grandma the nickname Flower Grandma. One day‚ Susan went to her Grandma’s house to tell her what kind of doctor she was. Susan was an abortion doctor. This was February of 1992. When Susan
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“Love is not all” by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a sonnet about love written in iambic pentameter‚ with traditional structure and follows traditional sonnet rules. It expresses the confusion and emotion of the poet in a way to give the reader the idea that he has suffered or is suffering. It also goes from speaking broadly about love‚ to making it more specific and then finally making it personal with the last line. After the first eight lines of the poem the speaker completely flips the way the poet
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Number 1 ♦ 2010 SERVICE QUALITY IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE Prabha Ramseook-Munhurrun‚ University of Technology‚ Mauritius Soolakshna D. Lukea-Bhiwajee‚ University of Technology‚ Mauritius Perunjodi Naidoo‚ University of Technology‚ Mauritius ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to obtain a better understanding of the extent to which service quality is delivered within the Mauritian public service by drawing on front-line employees (FLE) and customer perceptions of service quality. The paper
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JC Life of Pi: A Movie Review The movie “Life of Pi” is a story of survival. In order to survive‚ the protagonist‚ “Pi”‚ draws his inner strength from his spirituality and practicality. A scientist once said‚ [i]“A man‚ as a general rule‚ owes very little to what he is born with. A man is what he makes himself.” As Pi tried to survive in the ocean‚ he became a soldier in his own right. What Pi’s character portrayed is very similar to what a good soldier should be. On Military Professionalism
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COMMON ERRORS GRAMMAR 1. Tense Errors – Common Error No. 1 These involve the wrong form of the verb. There are 3 forms of verbs – a) common verbs – - present tenses - past tenses - continuous tenses b) modal verbs - can‚ could‚ shall‚ should‚ may‚ might (plus verb) c) auxillary verbs – are‚ is‚ were Common Verbs are often found in the Present‚ Past and Future Tenses. PRESENT TENSES Example Example of Error Correction Simple Present He drinks tea every morning Then
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