A Short Exam Does Not Necessarily Make for an Easy Exam. This is certainly the case with the Series 87, FINRA’s qualification exam for Research Analyst’s. This statement summarizes FINRA’s Series 87 exam for Research Analyst to a …
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New Research Rules FINRA’s released new research rules which generally: – reduce the research quiet periods following IPOs and secondary offerings, – eliminate the quiet periods surrounding lock-up agreements, and – exempt certain debt research reports issued to institutional …
A yield curve is a graph that plots the relationship between interest rates and the time to maturity for fixed-income securities with equal credit quality. The shape of a yield curve can be analyzed to forecast future interest …
Certain aspects of economic activity serve as indicators of business cycle phases. These economic factors can be characterized as a leading indicators, coincident indicators, or lagging indicators. A leading indicator is an economic factor that changes before the …