The current market knowledge questions
Current market knowledge can’t be prescriptive – by definition it changes all the time. Make sure you know current key market metrics and have opinions about market trends and a selection of investment ideas.
1. What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average/FTSE as of today’s opening bell?
2. What is the Bank of England base rate/Fed funds rate as of this morning?
3. What’s the different between prop trading and market-making? (We have an explanation of this here).
4. Why would you or would you not invest in Apple?
5. What are your opinions on the Greek crisis? What’s going on in China?
6. Where are the 1-year, 5-year, and 10- year Treasury yields?
7. Would you invest in UK real estate now?”
8. What do you think is going to happen with interest rates over the next six months?
9. What has the market been doing? Why? What do you think it will do in the coming 12 months?
10. Tell me about some stocks you follow. Why should I buy them?
11. What does the yield curve look like now?
12. What major factors drive M&A? What are the major factors driving M&A in your sector? How do you see them evolving in the next year?
13. Where is the market (for bonds/equities/FX) going?
14. How would you hedge against the risk of a Greek default?
15. Where do you see the euro in 2018?
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