FINA4121
FINA 4121 - Financial Markets and Interest Rates (2 Cr.)
Finance (11265)
TCSM - Curtis L. Carlson School of Management
FINA 4121 - Financial Markets and Interest Rates (2 Cr.)
Course description
This course provides a framework to understand how financial markets operate and how they establish the cost of capital demanded by investors through market interest rates. Course presents valuation models for bonds, the impact of the Federal Reserve on the level and term structure of interest rates, measures of interest rate risk, financing markets for securities and how these define the pricing of futures and forward contracts.
prereq: FINA 3001 or FINA 3001H; CSOM mjr or NONM or Management minor or Math/Actuarial Science major.
prereq: FINA 3001 or FINA 3001H; CSOM mjr or NONM or Management minor or Math/Actuarial Science major.
Minimum credits
2
Maximum credits
2
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
AFV - A-F or Audit
Lecture
Requirements
012962
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for:
02134
Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?
No
Typically offered term(s)
Every Fall & Spring