Sumários

1. Financial Markets (Online)

5 Fevereiro 2026, 14:30 • Andrea Meireles

Financial market segments. Money markets: instruments, interbank money market (IMM), benchmarks. Capital markets: main functions, primary market vs. secondary market, bond vs. stocks, bond market instruments, stock market instruments, and market indices (price-weighted vs. value-weighted). Derivatives market: derivatives, underliers, uses, exchange-traded derivatives vs. OTC derivatives, forward contracts, futures contracts, and options.

Introduction & 1. Financial Markets

4 Fevereiro 2026, 14:30 • Andrea Meireles

Introduction: contact details, learning objectives, syllabus, timetable and lesson planning, assessment, bibliography, Moodle, and Code of Academic Conduct.

Financial markets: investments; assets (real vs. financial); roles in economy; investment process; competitiveness of markets, risk-return trade-off, efficiency, and investment management; market participants and financial intermediation.