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Overview For The Week
Overview For The Week
Week 3 continues the previous weeks discussion of market structure, focusing on the nature of stock exchanges, the increasing use of
technology that has invaded/pervaded global financial markets in recent years and expands on the tools available to market participants.
These tools include extensive presentation of material relating to margin trading (wherein money can be borrowed to buy more securities and
short-selling (which makes bets on downside movements in asset prices possible).
The week ends by providing a framework for security valuation, looking first at economic analysis, macro-measurement issues and macro policy
issues.