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are severely effected by the student loan default rates. Social location has a major impact on the way in which students attend and fund their higher education. Those individuals who are not economically able to fund their college education are either left out of higher education, or must resort…

Introduction Ever since the late 1700’s, because of the American Revolutionary War, America has been burdened with the looming national debt that it's acquired. National debt is when a country does not have enough money for anything consequential, and therefor it borrows money from another country. America has acquired an immense amount of national debt and it cannot keep up with the interest that it's required to pay, and due to this, America is thrown further into its national debt crisis. The…

“constituting or conforming to a type or standard; regular, usual, typical...” (“Normal, adj. and n,”OED Online). In other words, normal refers to the default or most common category or characteristic. In America, the “normal” or default person is thought of as a white, heterosexual Christian male. Being a white male is probably considered the default because America was colonized and taken over by white Europeans (US history.org). By taking the land from the Native Americans, the white…

earnings yield, et al. Bond is issued by the public sector authorities, credit organization, et al. and owned by bondholders, meanwhile stocks are issued by corporation or joint-stock corporation. Lastly, bond derivatives are bond options, credit default swap, collateralized debt liability, while common share derivatives are credit derivative, hybrid security, options, et…

Case Questions: 1.) (a) Analyze the reasons for and against the rating change. (b) Think of arguments for and against considering pensions as equity or as debt. (c) Is S&P's methodology coherent before the change in its methodology? (d) After the change? (e) Is the "on balance-sheet" approach suggested by the academics better? (f) Is ThyssenKrupp right in arguing that its rating should not change? 2.) Analyze the reaction of stock and bond prices (Exhibits 10 and 11) and comment on the reaction…

corporate bonds constitute the largest proportion of the bond market. Corporations utilize proceeds from issuing bonds in many ways. They may undertake research and development, purchase new equipment, and finance mergers and acquisitions. A credit or default risk is the uncertainty that the corporation may fail to pay the interest and principal amount on maturity. Other risks include the interest rate risk; the price of a bond decreases with a rise in interest rates. Bonds with a long maturity…

Answer to Question 1 Basel III introduced new requirements regarding liquidity risk in the banking sector under the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR). Firstly, explain the criteria and rationale for banks to identify the kinds of assets that qualify as HQLA and the relative ratios for each kind of HQLA is required for compliance with the LCR requirement. One of the consequences of this ratio is that banks are required to model their expected net cash outflows during a 30 day period of acute market…

“The Big Short” portrays a story of a four individual outsiders working in the world of finance in Wall Street, New York who predicts that the credits and housing bubble will collapse soon before anyone else does. At that time in the US, banks were lending out mortgages to people who could not afford housing and dealing with high risky lending rates meanwhile, the citizens were not paying back their loans from banks. So these few individuals thought maybe if they beat a large sum of money by…

Most people nowadays assume that their hard earned money is pretty safe right? You would think that with all the guarantees and safety protocols banks have in place along with all the laws and rules, banks couldn’t get away with taking money from people. Well safe to say that your money is reasonably safe in this day in age, now that there are actually money rules and regulations put in place to keep your money where you desire it to be. But not so long ago, there were some pretty bad people…

Financial Risk Analysis In addition, ABC Community Banks financial risks include market, credit and liquidity risks. Interest rate risk, a byproduct of market risk, occurs when the U.S. Federal Reserve alters interest rates (Elliott, 2012). Consequently, as rates increase the profit margin earned by ABC Community Bank decreases, negatively affecting the company’s net income and balance sheet (Investopedia, 2015a). Depending on ABC Community Banks reserves, the impact of interest rate changes…