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To know when specific economic data points are a positive or negative surprise.

What is the main reason that investment banks create estimates of economic indicators?

2%

What is the most common target inflation rate for an advanced economy?

Central bank interest rates

What is the primary driver of the left-hand end of the yield curve?

The large government bond market competes for investors attention via yields

What is the primary reason for U.S. government bond yields to ripple through the bond market?

Her mortgage payments and necessities are fixed.

What is the prime reason that Jenny's discretionary income is more volatile than her salary?

Both countries are highly creditworthy.

What is true of both the U.K. and the U.S.?

A stock's P/E ratio can remain above or below market average for extended periods.

What may be a problem of comparing the P/E of a stock to the P/E of the overall market?

U.S. government bonds are considered low risk.

What quality of U.S. government bonds causes investors to buy them when market volatility rises?

Nonfarm payrolls go down, the PMI indicator goes DOWN, the housing starts goes down.

What typically happens to nonfarm payrolls, the PMI indicator, and housing starts at the onset of a recession in the United States?

To halt the vicious cycle of deflation

What was the primary goal of Abenomics?

Defines the industry or industries in which the company operates.

When an analyst is looking at a company for the first time, which of the following four activities does he do first?

Investors do not after the calculation

When investors doubt the creditworthiness of a borrower, how do they alter their calculation of the bond yield to take into account these doubts?

Japan

Which country is the fourth biggest importer and exporter?

A surprise change in inflation expectations

Which driver weakened the Swiss franc?

nonfarm payrolls

Which economic indicator is most directly linked to unemployment?

Surprise changes in interest rates, inflation, and trade.

Which of the following are short-term drivers of currency valuation?

A fishery exceeding fishing quotas

Which of the following assigns the same relative weightings to short-term and long-term outcomes as the absolute valuation process?

GDP

Which of the following important U.S. economic indicators is only available on a quarterly basis?

An investor who is about to buy bonds.

Which one of the following actors benefits when interest rates go up?

A 4% annual yield on a credit risk-free 10-year government bond from the mythical country of Utopia.

Which would you prefer

Due to the residual nature of earnings

Why are equities volatile?

IPOs incentivize entrepreneurs to innovate as IPOs provide a way for entrepreneurs to monetize their work.

Why do companies do IPOs?

an IPO crystallizes the value of the manager-owners stake.

Why do company manager-owners smile when they ring the stock exchange bell at their IPO?

because it has the right to tax the wealthiest population on earth.

Why does the United States have a strong reputation for creditworthiness.

To compensate leaders for the greater risk of long-term loans compared to short-term loans

Why does the yield curve naturally slope upwards.

An inverted yield curve means that bond traders are predicting interest rate cuts, and interest rate cuts happen in response to a recession.

Why does the yield curve tend to invert shortly before a recession?

Because the repayment amounts and timings are fixed for ordinary bonds.

Why is fixed income called fixed income?

To respond quickly to changes in the currency markets.

Why would Jack Welch suggest putting all company plants on barges?

$100 million

Widget Co has a market capitalization of $100 million. it does a 10-for-1 stock split. it then does a 1-for-16 reverse stock split. Finally, it does a 35-for-1 stock split. Nothing else changes. what's the new market cap?

Earnings estimates

A rise in which of the following inputs will increase an absolute valuation?

A shareholder in a booming economy.

A wedding planning company has a high fixed-cost base and a lot of debt. Who would you rather be?

A comparison of the commercial prospects of new aircraft models

Engines are the most expensive, heavy component on an aircraft and are designed with detailed specifications. Which of the following would likely be the best theme for a Rolls-Royce analyst research note to help a portfolio manager decide between investing in Rolls-Royce or United Technologies?

Inaccurately because the scope of GDP measurements can change.

How accurately do GDP portray the economy and why?

Consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of the U.S. economy when the number of unemployed consumers rises, there is less consumer spending.

In the United States, why is there a strong correlation between unemployment and GDP?

Its storage costs

Legendary investor Warren Buffett said, "Gold gets dug out of the ground..... Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head." Based on this quotation, what quality of gold is he referring to?

A house

The purchase of which of the following products is most affected by interest rates?

Median age of society

You are building a financial model of a bifocal lens manufacturer. Which of the following is the best driver to use?

The country has deflation. The bottom line is nominal growth and the top line is real growth.

Here is a chart showing both nominal GDP growth and real GDP growth for a country. Which of the following can be a true statement at the time the chart was captured?

Sweden performed better

Here is the most important economic data for Australia and Sweden. which economy did better year-over-year (YOY) in the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to the fourth quarter of 2012? Use the two charts to investigate.

prices decline

Here is the vicious deflationary cycle. What step connects the lower left gray arrow to the upper right blue arrow?

Inflation

Were the two oil crises in the 1970s linked to deflation or inflation?

A 5% annual yield on an investment in 10-year U.S. government bonds

Which would you prefer?

Creditworthiness

A rise in which of the following measures would typically send a government bond price up?

There is no general rule.

As a general rule, what percentage of debt to GDP will make a government's bond yields spike?

There is not enough information to tell.

Company X was expected to have earnings per share of $0.52 for the upcoming quarter. On the day of the results, the company reported earnings per share of $0.83. What happened to the share price when the stock market opened?

It went down

Consider the formula GDP = C+I+G+(X-M). A country is undergoing a boom in consumption of domestic and foreign luxury goods. In one year, the dollar growth in imports is greater than the dollar growth in domestic consumption. Assuming nothing else has changed, what happened to GDP?

by comparing the yields of single bonds

How do investors compare bonds?

By compensating investors for inflation

Investors who fear rising inflation may buy Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS). How do TIPS shield lenders from inflation?

Corporate impact, global impact, consumer impact.

What are the three main transmission mechanisms by which the yield curve affects the economy?

Coupon repayment

What does one yellow bar depict in this debt distribution diagram?

How currencies may be overvalued or undervalued.

What does the Big Mac index show?

Both are estimated in advance by analysts.

What does the release of earnings announcements have in common with the release of economic indicators?

The currency strengthens.

What generally happens when a central bank unexpectedly increases interest rates?

A tendency to expand the borrowing capacity of the company.

What impact will a tightening of the corporate spread most likely have on a company?

Short-term forecasts

What input do both absolute valuation and relative valuation typically require?

Future profits are uncertain.

What is a reason one discounts future cash flows as part of the absolute valuation process?

The estimated growth can be dramatically wrong.

What is one possible weakness of this peer approach to valuation?

To build liquid FX reserves

What is one reason why foreign governments lend to the U.S. government?

Core PCE

What is the Federal Reserve's favorite inflation gauge?

Hong Kong dollar against the U.S. dollar in 1997.

Which of the following is not an example of a failed peg?

They do not consistently presage turning points.

Which of the following is the biggest pitfall of economic indicators?

wartime activities

Which of the following is the strongest driver of inflation?

PMI

Which of the following lines is the best leading economic indicator?

By locking in forward rates for known foreign payments.

Which of the following options is the best way for investors to manage currency risk?

Timeliness of release

Which of the following qualities of economic indicators do investors prize the most?

When you buy an equity, the most you can lose is 100% and your potential gain is unlimited.

Which of the following statements is true?

U.S. Stocks rally on Fed's Surprise reduction of Interest Rate.

Which of these headlines could move a currency pair?

Because GDP statistics are released well after other economic indicators.

Why is the release of GDP statistics less interesting to investors than the release of other economic indicators?

The cash flow from equities can continue indefinitely while the cash flow from most bonds comes to an end.

how do earnings yields differ from bond yields?

C= Consumer spending I = Investment (Gross Fixed Capital Formation) G= Government Spending X= Exports M= Imports

what is the meaning of each letter in the GDP formula, C+I+G+(X-M).

Enterprise value = market cap - cash + debt

How is enterprise value calculated?

$50.00

If the earnings per share of a company is $1 and the earnings yield is 2%, What is the price per share?

Global investors are attracted by higher bond yields in high interest rate countries.

By what mechanism do interest rates affect currency values?