Think you know finance? Test your skills with this quick pop quiz.
- Which global sector is a mere 10% away from falling below its 1998 Asia/Russia/LTCM crisis lows relative to global equities, in market-cap terms?
- The five governors of Fed, BoJ, ECB, BoE and BoC have been in their current positions for a total of 12 years; over that period, how many times have Yellen, Kuroda, Draghi, Carney and Poloz raised interest rates?
- In US High Yield there are 36 sectors; how many are currently generating a total return loss in 2015?
- In April next year, the bull market in the S&P 500 would become the longest, second longest or third longest bull market of all time?
- At their peak in 2008, just two days before the ECB infamously hiked interest rates, Energy & Materials accounted for 24% of the global equity market cap; as we approach the infamous September FOMC, what do Energy & Materials account for now?
- Which are the top three best performing global asset markets in the past six months?
- Global interest rates are currently at five-year lows, 50-year lows, 500-year lows or 5,000-year lows?
- Which S&P 500 sector, the mirror image of EM performance over the past ten years, has just reached a new cyclical high?
- Following China’s currency devaluation last week, how many other central banks have officially devalued their currencies?
- Of the 36 PMI’s across the globe, how many are currently below the boom-bust 50 level?
- Since the Fed last hiked interest rates 110 months ago, how many times have global rates been cut?
- Name the only two commodities that are up in price in 2015?
Answers here [5]. Source BofA
