Bonds, or debentures, are fixed-income financial instruments, essentially long-term loans issued by a business to investors.
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A mortgage is a long-term bank loan used by the business for the purchase of land or buildings. Mortgages are secured bank loans.
A long-term bank loan is provision of finance by the lender to the business for a long period of time. The lender is a commercial bank.
Sale-and-leaseback is a transaction when the business sells a particular Fixed Asset and immediately lease that asset back.
The government can slow down economic growth by decreasing its own government spending, through higher TAXes and increasing interest rates.
Government intervention may either support business activity to speed up economic growth or restrain it to slow down the economy.
It is not very difficult to calculate exchange rates. Exporters and importers are interested in calculating exchange rates.
The government of any country will most likely formulate two different types of policies - domestic policy and foreign policy.