金融英语测试题自测-打印版
第一章：
1、equity（股本）
2、financial system
3、portfolio（投资组合）
4、bond
5、stock
1.a nother way for Intel to raise funds to build a new semi-conductor factory is to sell stock in the company. Stock represents ownership in a firm and is, therefore a claim to the profits that the firm makes. For example, if Intel sells a total of 1000000 shares of stocks, then share represents ownership of 1/1000000 of the business
2.A mutual fund is an institution that sells
shares to the public and uses the proceeds to buy a selection, or portfolio, of various types of stocks, bonds, or both stocks and bonds. The shareholder of the mutual fund accepts all the risks and returns associated with the portfolio. If the value of the portfolio rises, the shareholder benefits, if the value of the portfolio falls, the shareholder suffers the loss.
第二章：
1、commodity money
2、fiate money
3、bank note
4、Treasury Bill
5、money supply
Most countries today have an “independent” central bank, that is, one which operates under rules designed to prevent political interference. Examples include the European Central Bank, the US Federal Reserve, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Reserve Bank of India, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, etc. Some central banks are publicly owned, and others are, in theory, privately owned. In practice, there is little difference between public and private ownership, since in the latter case almost all profit of the bank are paid to the government either as a tax or a transfer to the government.
Central banks implement a country’s chosen monetary policy. At the most basic level, this involves establishing what form of currency the country may have, whether a fiat currency, gold-backed currency ( disallowed for countries with membership
of the IMF ), currency board or a currency union. When a country has its own national currency, this involves the issue of some
form of standardized currency, which is essentially a form of promissory note: a promise to exchange the note for “money” under certain circumstances.
第三章：
Interest rate
Inflation
monetary policy
Federal Reserve Act
Discount loan
Serious disagreements existed over whether
the central bank should be a private bank or
a government institution. Because of the heated debates on these issues, a compromise was struck. In American tradition, Congress wrote an elaborate system of checks and balances into the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which created the Federal Reserve System with its 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks.
All national banks (commercial banks chartered by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) are required to be members of the Federal Reserve System. Commercial banks chartered by the states are not required to be members, but they can choose to join. Currently, around one third of the commercial banks in the United Stated are members of the Federal Reserve System, having declined from a peak figure of 49% in 1947.
