FIN266 : Financial markets

Department

Department of Financing and Banking

Academic Program

Bachelor in Finance and banking

Type

Compulsory

Credits

03

Prerequisite

FIN160

Overview

The study of the course aims to provide the student with the ability to know and analyze the nature of the financial markets, their functions, their forms and the financial tools that they offer, as well as teaching the student the mechanisms of dealing in the stock markets and analyzing the stock market indicators and the requirements of the efficiency and liquidity of the financial market. financial markets.

Intended learning outcomes

A. Knowledge and understanding:

  • Introducing the student to the concept of financial markets, its characteristics and the pillars of financial markets. To make the student understand the basic divisions of the financial markets, the financial instruments traded in them, the rules and procedures for dealing in the stock markets and the mechanisms of dealing in them. Defining the student about the basic information needed for investors and stock market indices. Defining the student what is the efficiency of the stock market and its different levels, what is the liquidity of the financial market, its characteristics, the crises of the financial markets, and standing on the emergence and development of the Libyan market for securities.
  • Introducing the student to the concept of financial markets, its characteristics and the pillars of financial markets.
  • To make the student understand the basic divisions of the financial markets, the financial instruments traded in them, the rules and procedures for dealing in the stock markets and the mechanisms of dealing in them.
  • Defining the student about the basic information needed for investors and stock market indices.
  • Defining the student what is the efficiency of the stock market and its different levels, what is the liquidity of the financial market, its characteristics, the crises of the financial markets, and standing on the emergence and development of the Libyan market for securities.

B. Mental skills:

  • To develop in the student, the ability to identify the requirements, conditions and obstacles to the success of the stock markets and to compare the basic divisions of the financial markets and the financial instruments traded in them.
  • To develop in the student, the ability to understand how to register, issue and implement buying and selling orders, how to execute and liquidate deals and transactions, and how to financial indicators and their ability, measurement and analysis.
  • The student analyzes the efficiency of the financial market, the random movement of prices, strategies to achieve liquidity and its impact on market efficiency.
  • The student develops the ability to stand on the effects of financial crises, the most famous of which are in the history of financial markets, and to know the mechanisms of dealing and developing the Libyan market for securities.

C. Scientific and professional skills:

  • That the student determines the requirements for establishing financial markets and the difference between the money market, the capital markets, the futures markets, and the financial instruments traded in them.
  • The student understands the volume of orders in the financial market, the procedures for executing transactions, their nature, information affecting the market value, its determinants, and how to build and read financial indicators.
  • That the student diagnoses the different levels of capital market efficiency and the characteristics of financial market liquidity.
  • That the student diagnoses financial crises and the development of the Libyan stock market.

D. General skills:

  • Encouraging dialogue and discussion.
  • Developing the student's ability to use the computer in various applications.
  • Developing the student's problem-solving skills and enabling him to keep up to date with what is new in this subject.

Teaching and learning methods

  1. Study lectures.
  2. Case studies and practical applications.
  3. Various exercises on the contents of the course.
  4. Diversity in questions and activating panel discussions to develop comprehension.

Methods of assessments

  1. Midterm exam 20%.
  2. Oral exam 10%.
  3. Practical exam 10%.
  4. Final exam 60%.

Course content

Number of hours

scientific subject

Week

3

The concept of financial markets.

1

3

Divisions of financial markets.

2

6

Financial instruments traded in the financial markets.

3-4

6

Rules, procedures and mechanisms for dealing in stock markets.

5-6

9

Basic information needed for investors and stock market indices.

7-8-9

6

stock market efficiency.

10-11

3

financial market liquidity.

12

3

financial market crises.

13

3

Libyan Stock Exchange.

14

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