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Debt As A Source Of Corporate Financing
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - 11:45am | 1054Read More...A public company, apart from the capital raised by offering shares on an exchange, is financed by another component: debt capital. It comes with an obligation to repay the amount borrowed plus interest at a later date. Why take on debt? Couldn't a company be content with equity? How...
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Jefferies Upgrades E-Trade Financial, 'A Unique And Scarce Asset'
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - 10:30am | 423Read More...With a potential sale looming, shares of E-Trade Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC) are attractive, according to Jefferies. The Analyst Jefferies analyst Daniel Fannon upgraded E-Trade Financial from Hold to Buy and maintained a $65 price target. The Thesis The upgrade demonstrates the...
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How New Secondary Markets Are Helping Pre-IPO Shareholders Cash Out
Monday, July 31, 2017 - 12:46pm | 852Read More...In the financial world today, private equity trading is all the rage. Private equity funds are consistently outperforming the public markets. More often than not, tech startups choose to seek funding through private equity, avoiding the need for a public offering to raise capital. This hesitation...
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Sector Rotation Strategies Boost Popularity Of Sector ETFs
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 9:11am | 677Read More...Parse through the top asset-gathering, equity-based exchange-traded funds for a particular year, and it is unlikely that multiple sector funds appear, but that anecdote belies the rising popularity of sector ETFs. Sector ETFs have gained popularity among advisors and investors looking for more...
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Shorts Love This ETF's Holdings
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 9:16am | 481Read More...Global equity market carnage is not playing favorites on a regional basis to start 2016, and plenty of that carnage is being absorbed by UK stocks. Over the past month, the iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF (iShares Trust (NYSE: EWU)), the largest UK exchange-traded fund trading in New York, has...
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Google In Talks To Take Stake In Virgin Galactic
Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 1:10pm | 274Read More...Sky News reported Thursday that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is in talks with Virgin Galactic to take a stake in Sir Richard Branson's $2 billion commercial space tourism venture. After news broke out Wednesday that Google would be acquiring satellite company Skybox Imaging, this...
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Why Are Baby Boomers Increasingly Attracted To Reverse Mortgages?
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 11:37am | 673Read More...U.S. baby boomers have found themselves in a bit of a squeeze. Not enough savings to fund retirement, but a desire to slow down and either work less -- or not at all. The answer, for an increasing number of boomers, is a vehicle known as a reverse mortgage. This trend is predicated on the...
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What Does The Current Market Risk Premium Tell Us About Future Stock and Bond Returns?
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 7:41pm | 467Read More...Recently many analysts and commentators have been quoted saying things like 'Stocks have never been so attractively priced when compared to bonds', or ' equities are a no brainer compared to bonds for the coming decade', or ' beware the bond bubble'. Many of these analysts encourage an...
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Did RE Metrics Fail the Industry?
Monday, May 24, 2010 - 6:00am | 2131Read More...Much has been said regarding the economic downturn and its hard-hitting subsequent effects on the commercial real estate industry. When economic forces such as unemployment, consumer spending, and housing all converge negatively on us, most sectors of income producing real estate...
