Financial Investments

FIN 1.     Given the Federal Reserve Board’s current and forward-looking position on interest rates, predict the level of risk associated with investing in bonds, and recommend a portfolio percentage for investment in bonds for a financial institution. Provide support for your recommendation.  Please provide one citation or reference for your initial posting that is not your textbook. Please do not use Investopedia or Wikipedia.   2.     Mortgage-backed securities are believed to have contributed to the recent subprime mortgage crisis. Assess the fairness of this statement, providing a rationale for your reasoning and a recommendation for future use of this type of investment.  Please provide one citation or reference for your initial posting that is not your textbook. Please do not use Investopedia or Wikipedia.   3.     From the e-Activity, based on your research of the current euro currency crisis, predict the future of the currency, including the impact the financial investment and risk within the eurozone for financial institutions. Provide support for your prediction and evaluation.  Please provide one citation or reference for your initial posting that is not your textbook. Please do not use Investopedia or Wikipedia.   INV Select a foreign currency that has either appreciated or depreciated versus the U.S. dollar in recent weeks, months, or last two years. Support the reason for appreciation or depreciation with at least two fundamental factors such as differentials in monetary policies, inflation rates, interest rates, capital flows, trade balances, unemployment rates, economic growth or gross domestic product (GDP), consumer or business confidence, and the like between two nations or zones. Explain why the factors you choose had the effects that they did.