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| Major classes of financial assets or securities |
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| Money market, Bond Market, equity securities, indexes, derivative markets |
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Treasury bills
Certificates of Deposits
Commercial Paper
Bankers Acceptances |
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Bid and asked price
Bank discount method |
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Treasury Notes and Bonds
Inflation-Protected Treasury Bonds
Federal Agency Debt
International Bonds
Municipal Bonds
Corporate Bonds
Mortgages and Mortgage-Backed Securities |
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| maturities up to 10 years |
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| maturities in excess of 10 year |
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| Issued by state and local government, no tazes |
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Issued by private firms
Semi-annual interest payments
Subject to larger default risk than government securities |
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Residual claim
Limited liability |
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Fixed dividends -limited
Priority over common
Tax treatment |
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Includes 30 large blue-chip corporations
Computed since 1896
Price-weighted average |
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Broadly based index of 500 firms
Market-value-weighted index
Index funds |
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