$1.$ Primary vs Secondary Market Transactions. Why do we differentiate between primary and secondary market transactions.

$2.$ Division of Capital Risk, Return and Contril. Explain why the bondholders are willing to accept a lower rate of return than stockholders in the same firms.

$3.$ Division Of Capital Risk, Return and Control. Explain why equity pwnership $($stocks$)$ is often much more valuable than debt ownership$($bonds$)$ in public corporations.

$4.$ Primary Market Equity Issues. What effect does a primary market equity issue have on the firm? What is this used for?

$5.$ Bond Rates and Maturity. If you have twon bons of diffent maturities issued by the same firm, which would you expect to have a higher coupon rate?

$6.$ Primary Market Debt Retirement. Under what condition would a firm decide to retire some of its outstanding debt earlier?

$7.$ Money Market Instruments. Why are money market instruments called that?

$8.$ Future vs Options. What are the differences between futures contracts and options?

$9.$ Foreign Exchanged Instruments. Explain how foreign exchange instruments would be used by an investor to hedge currency risk.

$10.$ Identify a publicly traded corporation that has at least two different classes of equity and investigate the firm to answer the following questions :

a$.$ How do the diffent classes vary in term of risk, return and control?

b$.$ Which class of shares was the originaltype of shares? Why do you think other classes were issued?

c$.$ Identify bonds issues by the firm. What are the coupon rates, maturities dates and credit ratings of those bonds?

d$.$ Are options traded on the stocks? What are the charateristics of these options?