Finance · Boston College
The focus of this course is on the fundamental drivers, functioning and inter-connectedness of global financial markets. Products covered will be interest rate markets (government bonds, money markets, swaps, interest rate derivatives, credit markets), equity indices, and foreign exchange markets. Tickers flash across TV screens detailing every move ininterest rates, currencies and equity markets. Why do some events move marketssometimes and not at other times? What just happened in UK markets? We willexplore the role of economic data, flow of funds analysis, central bank policy,and fiscal and
