In one of the most closely followed bond issues in recent history, overnight the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), one of the five member-institutions of the World Bank Group, sold 500 million SDR-denominated three-year bonds carrying a coupon of 0.49% at an auction in China’s interbank market on Wednesday. 204 more words
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Are Activist Investors Good for Targeted Companies?
In recent years, activist investors and the companies they target have attracted considerable attention—in the press, in the business and legal communities, in the political arena, and in academia. 888 more words
Felix Investments And The Best Investment Options
“Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation,” is perhaps the most succinct observation on the principles of the marketplace to have been written. Certainly, in a mere nine words it is able to encapsulate what be might well be the working definition of… 373 more words
How Elon Musk Used A Broken Marketplace To Play Us All
Government subsidized technology is developed and Musk cashed in. Then cashed out. Then left stock holders holding the bag. It’s like the Simpsons monorail episode… 1,123 more words
Presumed Guilty: Companies Targeted by Short Sellers
You can rank investment strategies based on their performance, but where’s the fun in that? If you rank them instead based on their originality and audacity — “The Chutzpah Rankings”, if you will — short selling would dominate the category. 318 more words
Black Men Just Unified To Show Love For Leslie Jones
The internet has been nasty to Leslie Jones. Not long after she was trolled off Twitter by hateful racists, who were mad about her role in the remake of… 396 more words
Can you control the Market ?
Someone asked me what’s your view on the market? my response was it will fluctuate. Some experts feel there is a breakout around the corner, some of them carefully waiting for the Fed policy this Friday. 189 more words
