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Question 1 of 10

Bank management: New policy dictates a 16% reserve ratio, have you met your minimum required reserve?

A. Yes

B. No

Question 2 of 10

What is your bank capital amount? Choose all that apply

A. -50M

B. $200M

C. $100M

D. TA-TL

E. $75M

Question 3 of 10

If your bank suffers a deposit outflow of $10 million with a required reserve ratio on deposits of 16%..Can you still manage to meet required reserve?

A. Yes

B. No

Question 4 of 10

What is the size of your shortfall?

A. $54M

B. $2.4M

C. $2.9M

D. $20M

Question 5 of 10

Which option will you choose to correct the shortfall ?

A. borrow from the Fed funds market at July 2017 rate

B. borrow from the Fed at the most recent discount rate

C. selling $2M worth in loans to another bank

D. buy $2.4M worth corporate bonds with coupon of 3%.

Question 6 of 10

Your Associate also wants you to look at your competitors balance sheets to compare your financial condition. Using your analysis for BofA, GS and Citigroup answer the following

A. Assets

B. GS

C. Liabilities

D. TRUE

E. BofA

F. FALSE

G. Citigroup

___ 1. Which firm has the smallest deposits

___ 2. Which firm has largest amount of loans outstanding?

___ 3. Which firm has the smallest amount of loans outstanding

___ 4. _____ loans / deposits ratio is 66%

___ 5. Citigroup loans/deposits ratio is greater than BofA loans/deposits ratio

___ 6. Which firm has largest debt securities / deposits ?

___ 7. GS chooses to have more assets in debt securities than in loans

___ 8. For Commercial Banks deposits with the bank are

___ 9. For Commercial Banks loans and debt securities that are to be paid to the Bank

Question 7 of 10

Bonds and Yields:

A: 3 year US Treasury note

B: Startup firm's bond

Type A or B

Which bond will you choose if you need cashflow every year for the next 3 years? Bond____

Which bond has a cheaper present value? Bond____

Which of these bonds is a zero coupon bond? Bond____

If you were a bank regulator which of these investment would you weight to have more risk? Bond____

Which bond has a lower chance of default? Bond____

Question 8 of 10

Compare the following Bonds

Bond A: 20 year bond selling for $950 with coupon of 4% and face $1,000.

Bond B: 1 year bond selling for $950 with coupon of 1% and face $1,000

A. discount

B. Bond A

C. TRUE

D. TRUE

E. FALSE

F. FALSE

G. FALSE

H. FALSE

I. Bond A

J. premium

K. Bond B

L. TRUE

___ 1. These bonds are selling at , discount, premium or par?

___ 2. Which $1,000 face value bond has higher yield to maturity ?

___ 3. Current yield is a better approximation for the 1 yr bond YTM than for the 20 year bond YTM?

___ 4. If interest rates are expected to increase which bond has more risk ?

___ 5. If the 1 year bond price drops to $500 it's YTM > 20 yr priced at $950 YTM?

___ 6. If interest rates are expected to decrease over time which bond would you prefer ?

___ 7. If the 20 year bond price increased to $2000, the YTM is negative?

___ 8. Looking at current yield formula , current yield can be negative ?

___ 9. If you buy the 20 year bond today for $950 and sell it next year for $1,200, this bond is sold at

___ 10. If you buy the 20 year bond today for $950 and sell it next year for $1,200 the return is 29.47%

___ 11. If you buy the 20 year bond today for $950 and sell it next year for $1,200 the return on your bond is equal to the YTM

___ 12. In order for either of these bonds to have yield equal to coupon, the price must be greater than face value?

Question 9 of 10

Treasury Yield curves

Type T or F

___ Prior to 2008, Oct yield curves were normal shaped

___ Oct 2012 30 yr yield was greater than 2011 30 yr yield

___ Oct 5 yr yields have strickly decreased since 2006

___ In 2015 QE stopped and all short term yields increased from 2015-2016

___ All 2017 term yields are higher than 2016 term yields

___ Overall Short term rates decayed most from 2006 – 2017

Question 10 of 10

Extra Credit

A. South Sea Bubble

B. Tulipmania

C. Both

D. Neither

___ 1 This asset was a share of a startup firm and had tax advantages on dividends

___ 2. This asset bubble popped when demand for asset dropped

___ 3. Middle class social status was measure by this asset

___ 4. This asset was measurement of aristocracy

___ 5. This asset was a physical asset and had potential supply constraints that many physical assets have

___ 6. Which bubble had an investor speculation attribute

___ 7. This asset had government investment involvement and government regulation in the aftermath

___ 8. This asset had hints of firm manipulation

___ 9. This asset bubble took place in the 16th century