Fixed Income

A week before your paper is due(due )) select an article from any periodical (ie Wall Street Journal, NYTimes Business section) or favorite business website(ie Bloomberg, Yahoo finance) that focuses on the fixed income markets. Write a 500-700 word paper summarizing the article in your own words and relate it to historical characteristics of the market. This a very broad assignment whose GOAL is to get you interested in the fixed income markets. Grading of this paper will be judged on the following:

*identifying the specific article: (10% of grade)
*attaining the 500 minimum word requirement: (20% of grade)
*identify one or two concepts we have discussed in class: (50% of grade)
*relate these concepts to the article: (20% of grade).

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