Monthly Archives: June 2014

Bonds – How Inflation And Interest Rates Affect Bonds – Investopedia

June 12, 2014 · by · in Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Derivatives, Economics, Financial Markets & Insituitions, Fund Management · 1 Comment

Bonds – How Inflation And Interest Rates Affect Bonds Ownership of a bond is the ownership of a stream of future cash payments. Those cash payments are usually made in the form of periodic interest payments and the return ofprincipal when the bond matures. In the absence of credit risk (the risk of default), the value of that stream of […]

6 Factors That Influence Exchange Rates

June 7, 2014 · by · in Economics, Financial Markets & Insituitions

By Jason Van Bergen on July 23, 2010 Aside from factors such as interest rates and inflation, the exchange rate is one of the most important determinants of a country’s relative level of economic health. Exchange rates play a vital role in a country’s level of trade, which is critical to most every free market economy in the world. For this reason, […]