Bond Basics
Interest paid on a bond
What is a bond's coupon?
The year Lehman Brothers and Bear Sterns collapsed
The board responsible for managing monetary policy and regulating the financial system
Who is The Federal Reserve Board ("The Fed")?
The meaning of FICM
What is Fixed Income Capital Market?
The oldest college in the USA
What is Harvard?
The overall interest rate earned by an investor who buys a bond at MP and holds it until maturity
What is Yield-to-Maturity?
The firm that the book Liar's Poker is based on
What is Salomon Brothers?
The primary tool adjusted for managing monetary policy
What is the Fed funds Rate?
Location of Stifel's Headquarters
What is St. Louis, Missouri?
The worst neighborhood to live in below Central Park
What is Midtown?
When Interest Rates are increasing, bond prices are _____.
What is decreasing?
The platform that equity traders used to monitor stock prices before Bloomberg
What is the Quotron Screen?
The role of the Fed Funds Rate
What is the rate at which commercial banks borrow and lend their excess reserves to one another overnight?
Typical hours for Sales and Trading
What is 7am - 5pm?
The year that the Subway system was first introduced to NYC
What is 1904?
The difference between Investment Grade and High Yield Bonds
What is the level of risk (Based on Moody's/S&P/Fitch rating scale)?
What bond traders used to calculate bond prices and bond yields before Bloomberg
What are Monroe bond calculators?
The dual mandate driving the Fed to adjust the Fed Funds Rate
What is price stability and maximum employment?
The CEO of Stifel
Who is Ron Kruszewski?
Largest of the 5 boroughs in NYC (based on population)
What is Brooklyn?
Type of bonds that could be issued by your hometown
What are Municipal Bonds?
The year that The Wall Street Journal began publication
What is 1889?
The current money supply within the US economy or how many dollars are in circulation within the US economy
What is $21.45 trillion?
The year of Stifel's IPO
What is 1983?
Average rent of a 1-bedroom apartment in Manhattan
What is $4,400?