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Welcome to the Market Return Podcast. A finance podcast brought to you by top-selling finance book author team Ross, Westerfield, and Jordan. Think all that stuff your college Finance professor threw at you was just a bunch of equations and mumbo jumbo? Nope. We use this podcast to keep in touch with current and former students. Teachers and students at other schools, and anyone interested in Finance.
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A new law being proposed in the Senate would levy a 2 percent excise tax on all funds used for share buybacks.
Early in the year, SPACs were all the rage as a way to sidestep the IPO process. In January, 97 SPACs went public compared to 27 IPOs. In July, there were only 32 SPACs compared to 57 IPOs.
Belize is well-known for its coral reefs and scuba diving, including the Great Blue Hole, which Jacques Cousteau called one of the five best dive sites in the world. Now, Belize may help save its coral reefs through bonds.
Early critics of the efficient market hypothesis claimed incorrectly that market efficiency meant that a monkey throwing darts at a list of stocks was just as good an investment strategy as any other.
Investors have been looking for alternative investments and will be able to invest in a guitar from an alternative metal band. Gibson is using Rally to sell ownership of collectible guitars.
Zillow has decided to abandon house flipping, laying off 25 percent of the workforce. Zillow wrote off $304 million in losses due to house flipping in the third quarter, with another $240 million to $265 million in losses to follow.
You can own a sports team. The Green Bay Packers are offering 300,000 shares of stock at a price of $300 per share.
In 2006, Adidas purchased Reebok for about $3.8 billion. The goal was to increase the company's presence in the sneaker market to better compete with Nike. In the past several years, Adidas' sales have grown, while Reebok's sales have been poor.
Back in December, Nasdaq approved a diversity requirement for the boards of companies listed on that exchange. Every company must have at least one female board member and one from an underrepresented minority. If a company fails to do so, it must explain in writing why it does not.
If you are not familiar with a Ponzi scheme, it is generally fraud in which early investors are paid out from contributions made by later investors.
China has recently asserted more control over private companies throughout the country.
Fidelity Investments recently hired Gilbert Haddad to head the company's decision science area.
The issuance of green muni bonds is a small part of the overall muni bond market, but the segment is growing.
Volkswagen's Dieselgate scandal has been ongoing for the past five years. Recently, former CEO Martin Winterkorn agreed to pay the company €11.2 million ($13.7 million) in a clawback.
We explore the dangers of negative amortization, that is when the interest paid each period is less than the interest accrued during that period.
If you own shares of GE, you may have noticed that the share price jumped 700 percent in one day! The reason is that GE underwent a 1-for-8 reverse stock split.
The COVID-19 economic downturn affected many areas of business, including working capital management.
In early 2020, COVID-19 lockdowns slowed the economy and resulted in a record dollar amount of debt being downgraded. By the end of the year, the default rate on corporate bond reached 6.8 percent.
It is estimated that 24 million accounts containing $1.35 trillion in assets have been left in 401k accounts when someone leaves an employer.
The IPO market has been hot this year, with more than 200 offerings raising over $70 billion. Of these IPOs, 30 were Chines companies, making 248 U.S. exchange listed China-based companies totaling $2.1 trillion in market value.
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