Sumários

Financial Markets: FOREX & Capital Markets

23 Setembro 2026, 09:30 • Andrea Meireles

Foreign exchange (FOREX) market: spot and forward markets, exchange rates (base currency and quote currency, bid and ask rates), rate inversion, exchange rate risk. Exercise 1.3.
Capital markets: functions, primary and secondary markets, bond market, stock market, stock market indices.

Financial Markets: Money Markets

22 Setembro 2026, 09:30 • Andrea Meireles

Money markets: Exercise 1.2(b)–(e), benchmark rates (EURIBOR, LIBOR, and going forward), and forward rate agreements (FRAs).

Financial Markets: Money Markets

17 Setembro 2026, 09:30 • Andrea Meireles

Financial markets: assets (real vs. financial), segments, bid and ask prices.
Money markets: participants, instruments, interbank money market (IMM), trade date and settlement date. Exercise 1.2(a)–(b).

Preliminaries

16 Setembro 2026, 09:30 • Andrea Meireles

Preliminaries: interest (simple and compound), interest rates (nominal vs. effective rates), and day-count conventions (with examples).

Introduction and Preliminaries

15 Setembro 2026, 09:30 • Andrea Meireles

Introduction: welcome, contact details, learning outcomes, syllabus, timetable and lesson planning, assessment, bibliography, Moodle.
Preliminaries: theory of interest, time value of money (TVM), interest (simple and compound), compounding vs. discounting.