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Quiz 524: GK Questions For Civil Services Examination

123456789101. “the members agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America would be considered an attack against all of them”The...

April 30, 2011

Quiz 523: GK Questions For UPSC Civil Services Examination (Mock Test Series)

123456789101. Consider the following parts of the Constitution of India: Fundamental Rights Fundamental Duties Directive principles of State Policy Which among the above parts of the constitution were...

April 30, 2011

Quiz 522: GK Questions for UPSC Exams

123456789101. Consider the following statements in context with the Infrastructure Finance Companies:  The Infrastructure Finance Companies are able to finance the infrastructure projects more than 75% of their...

April 30, 2011

Exchange Traded Derivatives

Unlike the OTC instruments, these are traded over an exchange. So in these contracts Exchange play an intermediately to all transactions. There is a third party in ETD...

April 28, 2011

Interest Rate Swaps

Interest Rate Swap is basically a contractual arrangement between two parties which are called “Counterparties”. Commonly the counterparties are a Financial Institution and an issuer. These counterparties agree...

April 28, 2011

Interest Rate Derivatives

Derivative is a product whose value is derived from the value of one or more basic variables. The basic variables are underlying assets, index or may be a...

April 28, 2011

Coupon Amount and Coupon Yield

Please note that Coupon amount is the sum of money the bond holder receives as an interest payment at fixed intervals. Coupon Yield is the return that investor...

April 28, 2011

Types of Government Bonds

The Government Securities are of the following types. Dated Securities Zero Coupon Bonds Floating rate Bonds Call / Put Option Bonds Dated Securities: Dated Securities have fixed maturity...

April 28, 2011

Fixed Income Markets

The maturity of the Fixed income markets is longer than 1 year. There are two kinds of instruments in the Fixed Income Markets viz. Bonds and Debentures. Bonds:...

April 28, 2011

Inter Corporate Deposits (ICD)

ICD market is used for short term cash management of the large corporates. As per the RBI Guidelines, the Minimum period of ICDs is 7 days which can...

April 28, 2011

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