Thursday, April 7, 2016

Financial Sector

Financial Assets- stocks or bonds that provide expectations  of future benefits. It benefits the owner only if the interest rate if the assessment certain obligation

Financial liabilities- it is in curved by the issuer of the asset which liability is owned
interest rate- the price paid for the use of a financial asset.

Stocks - financial assets that convey a assets in a corporation
Bond- is the promise to pay a certain amount of money plus interest

A bank is a financial intermediate uses  liquid assets  (bank deposits) to finance  the investments of the borrowers. In a process known as fractional reserve
Banking- a system in which depositors institution  hold liquid assets  less then the amount of deposits can take the form of currency in banks vaults
Banks Reserve- deposits held at the Federal Reserve



1 comment:

  1. The picture of the chart really helped me to understand what falls where and whether it increases or decreases! Don't forget that bonds are a promise to pay a certain amount of money plus interest in the future.

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