Patent ID: 7685053

Claim:
A method of using an apparatus in producing financial analysis output in selling fixed income instruments to multiple buyers, the method including: receiving at a first processor of a first computer system, from a second processor of a second computer system, data associated with a price a first buyer is willing to pay for a first at least one fixed income instrument, the first computer system being a seller computer system, the first buyer being one of the multiple buyers, each respective one of said at least one fixed income instrument being a respective one of the fixed income instruments; program-controlling the first processor in automatically computing a first yield/discount rate at least in part from at least some of said data associated with the price the first buyer is willing to pay for the first at least one fixed income instrument, the first yield/discount rate being associated with said first at least one fixed income instrument; and outputting financial analysis output comprised of the first yield/discount rate to one of the second computer system and a third computer system of another one of the multiple buyers.