requirements for the Degree of Masters in Finance & Control Department Of Business & Financial Studies University Of Kashmir Certificate This is to certify that the project entitled “Factors Affecting the Success and Failure of Futures Contracts” is research work done by Owais Javaid Qureshi‚ under my supervision‚ during March-April‚ 2012‚ submitted to the Department Of Business and Financial Studies‚ University Of Kashmir in partial fulfillment for the award of the Degree of Masters
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Impact of Index futures derivatives on the stock market volatility (1998-2005) Abstract Derivative products like futures and options in Indian stock market have become important instruments of price discovery‚ portfolio diversification and risk hedging in recent times. This research study is an effort to study the impact of introduction of index futures on the stock market volatility. In order to capture the impact of introduction of index on the volatility of the underlying‚ a dummy variable
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POINT/COUNTER-POINT: Should Speculators Use Currency Futures or Options? POINT: Speculators should use currency futures because they can avoid a substantial premium. To the extent that they are willing to speculate‚ they must have confidence in their expectations. If they have sufficient confidence in their expectations‚ they should bet on their expectations without having to pay a large premium to cover themselves if they are wrong. If they do not have confidence in their expectations‚ they
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payments. 2. What do hedge funds do: (a) Hedge? (b) Speculate? (c) Arbitrage? (d) None of the above Answer: (a)‚ (b)‚ (c) 3. During the growing season a corn farmer sells short corn futures contracts in an amount equal to her crop. If after harvesting and selling her crop she maintains the contracts‚ she is then considered a: (a) Hedger (b) Speculator (c) Arbitrager (d) None of the above Answer: (b)
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76 CHAPTER 7 CURRENCY FUTURES AND OPTIONS MARKETS This chapter describes foreign currency futures and options contracts and shows how they can be used to manage foreign exchange risk or take speculative positions on currency movements. It also shows how to read the prices of these contracts as they appear in the financial press. SUGGESTED ANSWERS TO CHAPTER 7 QUESTIONS 1. On April 1‚ the spot price of the British pound was $1.86 and the price of the June futures contract was $1.85. During
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DEFINITION Past future perfect tense is a verb form to discuss activities that would have been done in the past. This form is commonly used in the main clause of a conditional sentence type 3 Past future perfect tense is formed with the auxiliary verb and would or should have‚ and the past participle (verb-3). Have used both for singular and plural subjects. While past participle can be either regular or irregular verb. Types of sentences Formula Example Positive ( + ) S + would/should
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REPORT ON PROMOTION OF PAYBACK CARD AND MIGRATION FROM GREEN CARD TO PAYBACK CARD AT PANTALOONS
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Q1: How has Enterprise Rent-A-Car (ERAC) defined its service differently than that of the typical national car rental company? Enterprise Rent-A-Car (ERAC) defined its service differently by a number of approaches that differs them from their competition. One of their approaches to car rental industry is their business philosophy of placing customer first then employees‚ which they put a lot of effort into recruiting‚ hiring and training. With satisfied customers‚ they will be sure to come back
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FOR NCWO ECO CAR BOOT SALE 2012 EVENT ACADEMIC PROJECT FOR: PUBLIC RELATIONS COUNSELLING COURSE (PRO 621) PRESENTED TO: NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMENS ORGANIZATION (NCWO) ACADEMIC ADVISOR: PROFESSOR MADYA DR KIRANJIT KAUR PREPARED BY: FACULTY COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES MC 222‚ FINAL YEAR UITM EPJJ STUDENTS DATE OF SUBMISSION: 28TH APRIL 2012 UPDATED BY: 20th MAY 2012 Table of Contents 1.0 Executive Summary 3 2.0 Introduction 3 2.1 Car Boot Sale
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This could happen when the price of the wheat increase by (1000/ 5000) =$0.2 the price of wheat must increase to (4.5+0.2) = $4.7 per bushel for there to be a margin call. $1‚500 can be withdraw from the margin account‚ this will happen if the futures price fall to (1‚ 500 / 5‚000) = $0.3 to (4.5 – 0.3) $42 per bushel. 4.25 (a) the six-month zero-coupon bond rate is calculated as follows: Rm=[m*(FV-PV)]/PV Rm=[2*(100-98)]/98=0.0482 Then this is converted into a continuously compounding
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