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Future Investors Club of America has designed Financial Leadership Training Tours to provide members the opportunity to expand their knowledge beyond the FICA Financial and Business Intelligence BFIT, AFIT & EFIT Training Curriculums. FICA Individual Members, Clubs, Chapters & Centers are all encouraged to include one or more of the FICA Financial Leadership Training Tours as an integral component of their training strategy. FICA Financial Leadership Training Tours has three main objectives, they are: Expose members to financial markets throughout the world; Provide members additional business, financial and leadership training needed to help members succeed. Provide a fun, exciting and informative environment that makes each leadership training tour a positive learning and memorable experience. FICA Financial Leadership Training Tours are carefully designed to provide both a National and International learning experience. Over the next five years FICA Members will have the opportunity to visit national tourist spots such as New York, NY, Chicago, IL, Philadelphia, PA, Washington DC, San Francisco, CA Los Angeles, CA, Houston, TX, Atlanta, GA, Miami, FL and more. In addition, International tours are now being planned for Japan, Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Great Britain. Below you will find a brief description of the upcoming tours. You may select one or more of the training tours. You are also encouraged to include at least one international tour to compliment your FICA learning experience. The upcoming FICA Financial Leadership Training Tours are as follows: The New York Stock Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, See America College Training Tour, Government & Finance Washington DC, The World of Entertainment Orlando, Fl and International Finance, Osaka, Japan.
Requirements: Members must be age 11 or older in order to participate in FICA's Financial Leadership Training Tours. Students must have completed either, FICA Basic Financial Intelligence Training, Advance Financial Intelligence Training or Executive Financial Intelligence Training. A competency rating of 80% must have been achieved at one of the above training levels. All membership fees must be current. Students must have satisfactory behavior during their FICA training and while attend their regular school. FICA's leadership believes that all youth should begin learning about finance and business at the earliest age possible. If you agree, then join us by getting youth under your leadership involved in this exciting and comprehensive educational opportunity so that we may continue "Training Tomorrow's Investors Today."
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The Osaka Securities Exchange is one of Japan's oldest and most respected securities exchanges. Its predecessor, the Osaka Stock Exchange, was established in 1878, together with the Tokyo Stock Exchange as a profit-making corporation, under the Stock Exchange Law of the same year. In 1943, as an emergency measure to control the war-time economy, Japan's then existing eleven stock exchanges were consolidated into one semi-government corporation called the Japan Securities Exchange. The Osaka Stock Exchange became its Osaka Division. This unified Exchange, however, suspended operation in August 1945 when the Pacific War came to an end and finally dissolved in April 1947. Today the Osaka Exchange is one of the worlds largest. FICA Financial Leadership Training Tours are designed to include trips to places like Osaka, Japan to provide more extensive financial intelligences training and to teach youth about the world of financial markets.
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The New York Stock Exchange traces its origins back more than 200 years, to the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement by 24 New York City stockbrokers and merchants in 1792. Centuries of growth and innovation later, the NYSE remains the world's foremost securities marketplace. Over the years, its commitment to issuers and investors has been unwavering, and its persistent application of the latest technology has allowed it to maintain a level of market quality and service that is unparalleled. Each day on the NYSE trading floor an auction takes place. Exchange members acting on behalf of institutions and individual investors manage open bid and offers on The Trading Floor. Buy and sell orders for each listed security meet directly on the trading floor in assigned locations. Prices are determined through supply and demand.
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The Chicago Board of Trade is the leading agricultural and financial futures and options exchange trading corn, soybean, wheat and treasury notes via ace electronic trading, Eurex and open outcry. Chicago's strategic location at the base of the Great Lakes, close to the fertile farmlands of the Midwest contributes to the city's rapid growth and development as a grain terminal. Problems of supply and demand, transportation, and storage, however, lead to a chaotic marketing situation and the logical development of the futures market. With the completion of telegraph communication with the South and East, Chicago could quickly receive price information from New York. To meet the need for a central marketplace, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is founded by 82 Chicago merchants, and settles into its first home above the Gage and Haines flour store at 101 S. Water Street where it will meet until 1852.
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The history of Universal Studios would make a great plot for one of its movies. The German immigrant who comes to America in 1884 at the age of 17 with a steerage ticket from his father and $40 in his pocket, works at everyday jobs in various places until the age of 39 and, with $3,000 in savings, goes to the big city (Chicago) to seek his fortune in 5 & 10 cent stores. Instead, he happens upon a nickelodeon and recognizes his opportunity - cheap overhead and hundreds of people a day paying a nickel to see a motion picture no longer than ten minutes. Soon after opening several nickelodeons, he realizes that renting movies is even more lucrative and expands his business to include an "exchange," which becomes one of the country's largest.
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Currency notes and coins are all produced by the Treasury Department. After production, the Treasury ships the coins and currency notes directly to Federal Reserve banks and branches. The Federal Reserve then releases them as required by the commercial banking system. The demand for money by the public varies from day to day and from week to week. There are even differences from season to season. Banks are usually first to feel the impact of the public's demand for cash. To meet the needs of the public, banks turn to their regional Federal Reserve bank for coins and currency when their supplies are low. The United States Mint is responsible for producing coins and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) produces currency notes. Both bureaus must produce coins and currency in quantities sufficient to fill the needs of the public.
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