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Sales & Trading? Research? Investment Banking?  \n- Of your past experiences what will help you as an analyst/associate?  \n- What differentiates this firm from other firms you are looking at?  \n- What products interest you and why?  \n- Why are you interested in sales & trading rather than investment banking? (and vice-versa)  \nTECHNICAL  \nSales & Trading:  \n- If the Federal Reserve raises the Fed Funds Rate by 50bps, what would you expect to happen to the bond markets? Why?  \n- Where is the dollar/euro trading currently and what do you expect to happen given the Obama administration views on the US currency value?  \n- How do you feel the Fed’s actions towards interest rates over the past year/two have affected our economy?  \n- Choose one of our administrations’ fiscal, monetary, or legislative policies and explain its effect on the equity/bond markets.  \n- If you had $100mn to invest, where would you allocate the money and why?  \n- What is your investing strategy?  \n- What is your Beta?  \n- Where do you think the DJIA will be in three months and six months-and why?  \n- Who is a more senior creditor, a bondholder or stockholder?  \n- When should a company buy back stock?  \n- When should a company issue stock rather than debt to fund its operations?  \n- What stocks do you like?  \n- What did the S&P 500 close at yesterday?  \n- Why did the stock price of XYZ company decrease yesterday when it announced increased quarterly earnings?  \n- Can you tell me about a recent IPO that you have followed?  \n- Do you think financial markets are efficient?  \n- What is the Chinese Wall in finance? Why is it important?  \n- What is meant by bid/ask or bid/offer spread?  \n- How do you think the credit crisis happened?  \n- What is meant by recovery value?  \n- How are bonds priced?  \n- What is the yield curve? What does it look like? Why?  \n- What is a credit default swap?  \n- What’s the difference between a primary and a secondary market?  \n- What is the impact on bond yields when a company has its credit rating downgraded?  \n- How does a downgrade of a country’s credit rating impact bond and equity markets?  \nInvestment Banking/Research:  \n- If a company wants to raise capital, tell me about one of their options and the fundraising process.  \n- Which is more expensive to a corporation: debt vs. equity? Why?  \n- How do you value the local store down on the corner, what measures would you use and why?  \n- What is depreciation and what financial statements do you find it on? What are deferred taxes?  \n- What are the 3 parts of a cash flow statement? Walk me through how you would build a cash flow statement using the income statement and balance sheets.  \n- If you know a company’s net income, how would you calculate its free cash flow?  \n- Walk me through a Discounted Cash Flow.  \n- Describe a recent M&A transaction that you've read about. What were the reasons behind that transaction? Does that transaction make sense?  \n- Do you know whether most mergers are stock swaps or cash transactions and why?  \n- Can you name two companies that you think should merge?  \n- What is a leveraged buyout? How is it different than a merger?  \n- The Chronicle is a large newspaper chain that is considering diversifying into non-newspaper media assets and is a potential client for our firm's M&A group. How would you go about advising this client? What information would you want to gather before you meet with the client?  \n- DukeWeb is a small Internet access provider, with $10 million in annual revenues. DukeWeb is considering acquiring another small Internet access provider in nearby North Carolina. What would you advise DukeWeb to do?  \n- A major ski resort currently forbids snowboarding, but is considering allowing the sport. 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