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... promised yield 10-19 Interest Rate Risk and Maturity 10-20 Malkiel s Theorems, I Bond prices and bond yields move in opposite directions – As a bond s yield increases, its price decreases – Conversely, ... portfolio managers use when they assess bond risk 10-2 Bond Basics, I • A Straight bond is an IOU that obligates the issuer of the bond to pay the holder of the bond: – A fixed sum of money (called ... • Simple Solution: purchase zero coupon bonds • Problem with Simple Solution: – U .S Treasury STRIPS are the only zero coupon bonds issued in sufficiently large quantities – STRIPS have lower yields...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... Inverse floaters - Coupon rate falls when interest rates rise & vice versa : Investors in these bonds benefit doubly when rates fall Asset-backed bonds - Income from specified assets is used to service ... standard measure of the total rate of return 10-19 Bond Prices and Yields Prices and Yields (required rates of return) have an inverse relationship When yields get very high, the value of the bond ... RISK AND BOND PRICING 10-27 Default Risk and Ratings Main Ratings Companies Moody s Investor Service Standard & Poor s Fitch Main Rating Categories Investment grade Speculative grade (junk bonds)...

Ngày tải lên: 10/02/2015, 14:14

... University Press, New York, 1992 [7] K.B Reid, Tournaments: scores, kings, generalizations and special topics, Congressus Numerantium, 115 (1996), 171–211 [8] C Thomassen, Landau s characterization ... integers r1 , r2 , , rn , it is possible to use Rado s theorem to establish necessary and sufficient conditions for T to be extendable to a tournament T with score sequence r1 , r2 , , rn Thus ... Classes, Cambridge U Press, Cambridge, 2006, 34–35 [3] J.R Griggs and K.B Reid, Landau s theorem revisited, Australasian J Combinatorics, 20 (1999), 19–24 [4] E S Mahmoodian, A critical case...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 21:21

... Production Costs In This Chapter: ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Explicit and Implicit Costs Short-Run Costs Long-Run Costs True or False Questions Solved Problems Explicit and Implicit Costs In this chapter we concentrate ... Implicit costs are the costs of the factors owned by the firm and used in its own production processes These costs should be estimated from what these factors could earn in their best alternative use ... first shows increasing returns to scale Then for a small range of outputs (around 80 0 units), it shows constant returns to scale For larger outputs, we have decreasing returns to scale Whether and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 19:22

... Ueda S, Kato S, Hirai K: Analysis of Marek 's disease virus serotype 1-specific phosphorylated polypeptides in virus-infected cells and Marek 's disease lymphoblastoid cells J Gen Virol 1 987 , 68( Pt ... oncogenes that is highly expressed in lymphoblastoid tumors Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1992, 89 :4042-4046 Xie Q, Anderson AS, Morgan RW: Marek 's disease virus (MDV) ICP4, pp 38, and meq genes are involved ... concentrations (pg/mL) of the lysates prepared as in Materials and Methods The statistics analysis was made between each pairs For each sample, numberical figures represent following data: mean ± S. E.,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... like a cup of tea! Suggested answers: 1) dessert 2) towels 3) delicious 4) bill 1) Would you like to see a menu? 2) Would you like to order now? 3) Would you like steamed vegetables or rice with ... EXERCISES Key vocabulary Look up the meaning and pronunciation of these words in your dictionary bill dessert menu change extra tip delicious glad towels Vocabulary Choose a correct word ... above to complete the sentences Could I please see the _menu? The extra $2 was for the Thank you The Crispy Chicken was _ Could we have the _ now please? Language Practice...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 09:52

... Mona: Waitress, there seems to be some mistake Jean: Is there a problem? Mona: I don't understand what this extra $2 is for Is it a tip? Jean: Let me see… ah, that 's for use of the towels Mona: The ... Crispy Fish and … your Garlic Chicken and Vegetables Mona: Oh dear Jean: Is there a problem? Mona: There seems to be some mistake I asked for no chillies This chicken has chillies Jean: Oh, yes ... thanks Mona: Just the bill, thank you Mona: Waitress, there seems to be some mistake Jean: Is there a problem? Mona: I don't understand what this extra $2 is for Is it a tip? Jean: Let me see…...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 16:27

... completed six novels: Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma and left behind three fragments By May 181 7,she was so ill that she and Cassandra, ... there is love and same tastes, which is a kind of representation of romanticism So she still rejects Darcy at the first time because his proposal seems to be a sacrifice to her by saying that she ... of the study The discussion of the assignment consists of background of Jane Austen, summary novel Pride and Prejudice and specially Jane Austen s romanticism in this novel The last one is the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 21:34

... Speakers of Spanish and Catalan 90 Portuguese speakers 113 Greek speakers 129 Russian speakers 145 Polish speakers 162 Farsi speakers 179 Arabic speakers 195 Turkish speakers 214 Speakers of South ... half, sword, psychiatrist, etc Stress Dutch and English stress patterns in words and sentences are quite similar There are some problems, though Dutch compounds regularly have stress on the ®rst ... me a scissor? *The police is looking for him Possessive `s German has an equivalent of the English possessive 's structure, but it is mostly used with names In other cases von ( = of ) is generally...

Ngày tải lên: 17/08/2013, 08:35

... ethanol is about 97 per cent.) Based on these assumptions the demand for cassava for producing ethanol in 2015 and 2020 assuming further that only cassava will be used to meet this demand was estimated ... other hand encouraged the production and usage of biofuels by allowing individual member countries to institute measures such as tax exemptions, financial assistance to companies, and establishing ... introduction of subsidies and incentives to boost the production of biofuels SNEP fell short of proposing any form of subsidies and or incentives after setting the targets In order to meet the set target...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... 11 What is ? It 's a ball A this B they C your name D Scott 12 Is it a yo-yo ? A It is a yo-yo C Yes, I am B It 's an eraser D No, it isn't 13 Is it ? Yes, it is A square B an square ... is this ? B Are you 10 years old ? D What is your name ? 17 ? She is 10 years old A How old are you ? C How old is he ? B How old is she ? 18 John ? is nine years old A I B He 19 Is ... square C a box square D box 14 it ? It 's a kite A Is B What C What 's D What color 15 What is it ? A They are dolls C It 's a doll B Yes, it is D No, it isn't 16 ? Yes, I am A How...

Ngày tải lên: 27/09/2013, 17:10

... Parkinson s Disease Parkinson s disease (also known as Parkinson disease or PD) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer s motor skills and speech ... Angiogenesis and Metastasis Inflammatory processes mediated by COX-2 and associated growth factors have been implicated in the invasiveness of various types of tumors COX-2 inhibitors, such as nonsteroidal ... flesh, including essential fatty acids from seeds and seed oils, and fibers, such as microcrystalline cellulose, pectins, lignins, cutin-like polymers, and condensed tannins, have been suggested...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20

... the costs • Distribution of costs not very transparent Restricted a Restructuring (con’t)  Even larger disposal of bad assets: NPLs transferred to Asset Management Companies (AMC): – In first wave, ... As s tandards • lig htly le s s than 10% o f to tal as s e ts are NPLs ) S 12 Restricted How are banks doing? (cont’)  Efficiency slightly lower than international standards but not a big issue ... and supervision How are banks doing? Suggestions for future steps Restricted Why all care for China s financial reform?  China s outstanding growth performance justifies optimism  And yet, such...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 16:15

... British Isles.’’²⁴ Also from within Irish studies, Joep Leerssen has taken the compromise stance that ‘‘unsettling’’ as his racialism is, Arnold strategically adopts such attitudes ‘‘merely as a ... tribute and serve it; so soon as we possess it, it pays us tribute and serves us So long as we are blindly and ignorantly rolled about by the forces of our nature, their contradiction baffles us and ... affairs; and, as in the Study, at which the ideological basis of English superiority, and of ‘‘Englishness’’ itself, was laid open to question As I have discussed in Chapter Four, the English assumption...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... priori; and its synthesis of intuitions, conforming as it does to the categories, must be the transcendental synthesis of imagination This synthesis is an action of the understanding on the sensibility; ... material such as how the subject and predicate terms were “distributed” in the premises, so as to block syllogisms such as “Socrates is white, white is a color, therefore Socrates is a color.” ... interest in becoming self-conscious, in coming to possess and comprehend our own mentality (Geistigkeit) As the terminus of these inquiries, the Idea thus represents something that is a Selbstzweck...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2013, 12:15

... Release 8. 0 A 584 25-01 Oracle8 Parallel Server Concepts and Administration, Release 8. 0 A 582 38- 01 Oracle8 JDBC Drivers, Release 8. 0 A 582 37-01 Oracle8 Error Messages A 583 12-01 PL/SQL User s Guide and ... Backup and Recovery, Release 8. 0 A 583 96-01 Oracle8 Tuning, Release 8. 0 A 582 46-01 Oracle8 Distributed Database Systems, Release 8. 0 A 582 47-01 Oracle8 Replication, Release 8. 0 A 582 45-01 Oracle8 Utilities, ... Oracle9 client-side libraries Applications using Version OCI Libraries Applications using Version specific OCI calls, such as those used to access Oracle8 's object types, not need to use non-deferred...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 17:15

... Business Skills Do 's and Don'ts for More Professional Speaking and Writing Tips and tricks gleaned from UGA s Foundations of Leadership and Management Program Business Skills Quiz Sixty-seven ... words possible Notes in paragraph forms It is not necessary to prepare notes prior to speaking Business Skills Quiz What does a speaker with his/her hands for the most energy and sense of professionalism? ... percent of first impressions are true > true > false A firm handshake is only offered to a businessman, not a business woman > true > false How long should a business sentence and business paragraph...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 23:15

... witch s house, and in every corner there stood chests full of pearls and jewels ‘These are far better than pebbles!’ said Hansel, and thrust into his pockets whatever could be got in, and Gretel said: ... was dark night, and Hansel comforted his little sister and said: ‘Just wait, Gretel, until the moon rises, and then we shall see the crumbs of bread which I have strewn about, they will show us ... tears, and said to Hansel: ‘Now all is over with us.’ ‘Be quiet, Gretel,’ said Hansel, ‘do not distress yourself, I will soon find a way to help us.’ And when the old folks had fallen asleep,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 03:20