August 2002
Beginner
847 pages
26h 4m
English
Content preview from The Handbook of Financial Instruments
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Chapter 6Money Market Instruments
Frank J. Fabozzi, Ph.D., CFA
Adjunct Professor of Finance School of Management Yale University
Steven V. Mann, Ph.D.
Professor of Finance The Moore School of Business University of South Carolina
Moorad Choudhry
Senior Fellow Centre for Mathematical Trading and Finance City University Business School
The money market is the market for financial instruments that have a maturity of one year or less. The financial instruments traded in this market include securities issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (specifically, Treasury bills), U.S. federal agency securities (discount note and various “bill” products), depository institutions (negotiable certificates of deposit, federal funds, and bankers acceptances), insurance companies (funding agreements), commercial paper, medium-term notes, repurchase agreements, short-term municipal securities, short-term mortgage-backed securities, and asset-backed securities. In this chapter we cover all but the last three financial instruments.
U.S. TREASURY BILLS
The U.S. Treasury is the largest single borrower in the world. Treasury bills are short-term discount instruments with original maturities of less than one year. All Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. This fact, combined with their volume (in terms of dollars outstanding) and liquidity, afford Treasury bills a central place in the money market. Indeed, interest rates on Treasury bills serve as ...
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