This document outlines questions that will be asked in a 40-mark financial markets exam section. It includes questions distinguishing primary and secondary markets, defining financial intermediation and intermediary functions, differentiating money and capital market instruments with examples, identifying major financial market participants, defining a stock exchange and its participants, explaining why governments regulate financial systems, and defining monetary systems, debt/equity instruments, derivative instruments, stock exchange issuers/brokers, and bulls/bears of stock exchanges.
This document outlines questions that will be asked in a 40-mark financial markets exam section. It includes questions distinguishing primary and secondary markets, defining financial intermediation and intermediary functions, differentiating money and capital market instruments with examples, identifying major financial market participants, defining a stock exchange and its participants, explaining why governments regulate financial systems, and defining monetary systems, debt/equity instruments, derivative instruments, stock exchange issuers/brokers, and bulls/bears of stock exchanges.
This document outlines questions that will be asked in a 40-mark financial markets exam section. It includes questions distinguishing primary and secondary markets, defining financial intermediation and intermediary functions, differentiating money and capital market instruments with examples, identifying major financial market participants, defining a stock exchange and its participants, explaining why governments regulate financial systems, and defining monetary systems, debt/equity instruments, derivative instruments, stock exchange issuers/brokers, and bulls/bears of stock exchanges.
1. Distinguish between primary and secondary markets. (5 marks)
2. What do you understand by Financial intermediation and what are the functions of financial intermediaries. (5 marks) 3. Differentiate between money and capital markets instruments with examples. (5 marks) 4. State and explain 5 major participants in a financial market. (5 marks) 5. Define a stock exchange and outline 4 major participants in a stock exchange market. (5 marks) 6. Why do the government regulates the financial system. ( 5 marks) 7. What do you understand by the following ( 10 marks) A. Monetary System B. Debt and equity instruments C. Derivative instruments D. Issuers and brokers of the stock exchange market E. Bulls and bears of the stock exchange market