Capital Markets Analyst Interview Questions
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Capital Markets Analyst interview questions shared by candidates
If the interest rates go down, what happens to the value of a bond?
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Bond Value goes higher to align yield with lower interest rates
You have 2 buckets...one 3 gallon bucket, one 5 gallon bucket. How do you get 4 gallons of water?
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fill the 5 gallon > fill the 3 gallon with the 5 gallon > empty 3 gallon > put remaining 2 gallons from 5 gallon to 3 gallon > fill 5 gallon > fill the last gallon from the 3 gallon with the 5 gallon bucket > you are left with 4 gallons in the 5 gallon Less
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fill 3 gallon bucket, fill the 5 gallon bucket with the 3 gallon fill the 3 gallon bucket again, fill 2 gallon of the 3 to the 5 gallon one, now there is 1 gallon left in the 3 gallon bucket empty the 5 gallon bucket and fill the 1 gallon into the 5 gallon bucket fill the 3 gallon bucket. now you have 4 gallon water, 1 in the 5 gallon bucket and 3 in the 3 gallon bucket Less
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Place the 3 gallon bucket upside-down inside the 5gal bucket...fill up the 5 gallon bucket and remove the 3 gallon to get the 2 gallons...then repeat. (This is assuming the 3 gallon bucket fits in the 5 gallon bucket.) Less
What is the different between debt and equity?
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First, some definitions The debt market is the market where debt instruments are traded. Debt instruments are assets that require a fixed payment to the holder, usually with interest. Examples of debt instruments include bonds (government or corporate) and mortgages. The equity market (often referred to as the stock market) is the market for trading equity instruments. Stocks are securities that are a claim on the earnings and assets of a corporation (Mishkin 1998). An example of an equity instrument would be common stock shares, such as those traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Less
You only have Net Income and Sales, which other financial number you would like to have to evaluate a company? (overall, i found the questions not very difficult)
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expenditure. If the company is spending more than it is, its in trouble. Also, those figures are just snapshots. You need graphs of these over time to see if any trends are emerging. Less
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EBITDA
Not so much difficult as unexpected - he wrote down 4 2's on a piece of paper and asked what you could do with them to make the largest number.
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2^(2^22) is bigger than all of those
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If you only get two 2's I don't see what you could do other than 2^2...? I would really like to know what the answer to this is if anyone has ideas. Less
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Maybe take (2 x 2) ! = 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 ...? Is that even allowed? I don't know.
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