What do you understand by the term financialization? What factors are driving US firms to distribute more of their cash to shareholders? The Bombardment of the psyche of the average citizen by the financial industry in newspapers‚ magazines‚ television and the internet offering different financial services from mortgage loans to credit cards brings to mind a question raised by Ismail (2008:1) “ … if finance is everywhere does this mean that we have in some sense become financialized.” This essay
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was the engine for the stock market in the 1920’s. It helped fuel people to start investing and purchasing stocks. People felt this was some sort of cheat code to help solve their financial problems. To them it was like‚ figuring out how to time travel and erase World War I. It was known as a “Buy now‚ Pay later” concept of credit. It would be very effected if stock prices would rise. How the method worked was that the investor gives his broker 50% of the value of the stocks that he wanted to make
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General Motors Brazil Service Part Business: A Case Study Business Change in the Spare parts market by GM Brazil General Motors started its business in Brazil in the year 1925 and has been growing ever since. GM had its spare parts business which has been highly profitable‚ but low on volume. This business constituted around US $ 250 million out of the overall income of US $ 3.2 billion a year. This is just about 7.8 % of the total income‚ but the margins in this business were much larger. The
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Institutional Investors in Indian Stock Market S S S Kumar* Abstract An important feature of the development of stock market in India in the last 15 years has been the growing participation of Institutional Investors‚ both foreign institutional investors and the Indian mutual funds combined together‚ the total assets under their management amounts to almost 18% of the entire market capitalization. This paper examines the role of these investors in Indian stock markets and finds that the market
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I N 4600 ST O C K -T R A K Project Stock-Trak‚ Inc. provides students with an inexpensive‚ and reasonably realistic market simulation. Using real-time quotes‚ students may trade various securities in a hypothetical portfolio. Stock-Trak‚ Inc. maintains accounts‚ accepts trades‚ and sends out weekly summary reports. This document summarizes the rules that are specific to Dr. Mayes’ FIN 4600 class for the Fall 2010 semester. Students should also consult the Stock-Trak site for their rules. Each student
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An Empirical Test of German Stock Market Efficiency A Master Thesis submitted by Lindsay Gillette (188816) to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Härdle in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science C.A.S.E. – Center for Applied Statistics and Economics Institute for Statistics and Econometrics Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin‚ Germany September 13‚ 2005 II Declaration of Authorship I hereby confirm that I have authored this master thesis independently and without
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Bangladesh‚ there are 2 stock exchanges. Dhaka Stock Exchange (Generally known as DSE) is the main stock exchange of Bangladesh. East Pakistan Stock Exchange Ltd was finally named as Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on 14 May 1964. Although incorporated in 1954‚ formal trading started in 1956. Prior to independence in 1971‚ the number of listed companies in DSE was 196 with a total paid up capital of BDT. 4 billion. The total number of listed companies is now 297. The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) is registered
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A trillion-dollar industry is based on investing in or benchmarking to capitalization-weighted indexes‚ even though the finance literature rejects the mean–variance efficiency of such indexes. This study investigates whether stock market indexes based on an array of cap-indifferent measures of company size are more mean–variance efficient than those based on market cap. These “Fundamental” indexes were found to deliver consistent‚ significant benefits relative to standard cap-weighted indexes
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Analyzing the 10 year Stock Performance of P&G and PepsiCo This report will examine the stock performance of PepsiCo and P&G over the past ten years and the factors that lead to this performance. Preliminary Conclusions and Recommendations Proctor & Gamble continue a lagging trend approach to continued long term success. This company holds on to one of the most diversified portfolios in their industry. They boast a product line that exceeds 250 different items. This company that has survived
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VARIABLES ON STOCK PRICES IN NIGERIA: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS UCHE‚ GEORGE EWA 2011 IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES ON STOCK PRICES IN NIGERIA: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS UCHE‚ GEORGE EWA 2007/147949 Being a research project submitted to the Department of Economics‚ in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics. AUGUST‚ 2011 i APPROVAL PAGE This research work on the topic‚ “IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES ON STOCK PRICES IN
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