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Nine Facts about Working on Wall Street
The crashes, the rises, the colorful fund managers, the rags to riches stories and the riches to rags stories make Wall ...
Predict Stock Trends Using MACD
This is the simplest technical tool used by analyst to predict stock trends. MACD stands for Moving Average Convergence ...
Cash Flow Yield
For some debt products such as mortgage-backed securities, we calculate cash flow yield instead of yield to maturity. Th...
How to Calculate Yield to Call of a Bond
For callable bonds that are likely to be called before their maturity, it is more useful to calculate yield to call inst...
Calculate Bond-Equivalent Yield of Annual-Pay Bonds
In the US, most bonds are generally semi-annual coupon paying bonds, so we calculate the semi-annual yield and then calc...
Factors Affecting Reinvestment Risk
As we learned in the previous article, coupon paying bonds have reinvestment risk because the investor is expected to in...
YTM and Reinvestment Risk
Yield to maturity calculates the total return an investor would earn by holding the bond till maturity. This includes bo...
Yield to Maturity (YTM) Approximation Formula
Calculating yield to maturity can sometimes be a tedious process because we need to do trial and error to arrive at the ...
Bond Equivalent Yield Convention
In the bond market the convention is to annualize the semi-annual yield by simply doubling it. So, if the semi-annual yi...
How to Calculate Yield to Maturity
Yield to Maturity (YTM) is the most commonly used and comprehensive measure of risk. In fact, if someone talks about jus...
How to Calculate Current Yield
The current yield of a bond measures the interest income that an investor gets from the bond. It’s represented using the...
Making MSN Stock Quotes Add-in Work in Excel 2010
This post is with reference to how to get stock quotes in excel using the MoneyCentral Stock Quotes Add-in from MSN Mone...
Best Movies about Money and Finance
We compiled a list of some of the best movies related to finance, financial crisis, and stock markets. Client 9: Rise...
Significance of Cash Flows
If a company has a high demand for its product, the product has high margins, makes purchases and pays on time, shows an...
Cash Flow Statements - Direct and Indirect Method
A cash flow statement can be presented using two methods: Indirect Method Direct Method The two methods differ in ...
Cash Flow Statement
Cash Flow is indicative of a company’s financial health. Problems in cash flow may point to issues in product pricing, o...
Income Statement
A lot of things hinge on a company’s profit. Profits determine bonuses, dividends to shareholders, timely repayments to ...
Sources of Return from Investing in a Bond
A fixed-income security, such as a bond, provides three different types of returns, and a yield measure used by the inve...
Elements of Balance Sheet
The balance sheet describes the financial situation of a business at a given time. It provides us critical information ...
Elements of Financial Statements
Though it is said organizations have an indefinite life, in reality they do have a particular life cycle. These are birt...
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