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Category: Equity

This category includes articles about financial instruments representing an ownership interest in an entity or pool of assets, including shares of all types and units of funds and trusts. [Capital Market Taxonomy]

Better than bailouts?

Preemptive rights issues for banks

HSBC at Canary Wharf, London

In March 2009, HSBC PLC strengthened its finances by making a preemptive rights offering of new equity. The bank quickly raised $18.5 billion dollars.

Unlike Citibank, Bank of America, and other giant US banks, HSBC did not have to sell its soul to the government to stay in business.

HSBC had the good fortune to be headquartered in the UK and to have much of its investor base in Europe and other countries where preemptive rights are the law and the customary way to raise capital.

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Stock buybacks

Stock buybacks dry up

Since 1982, US equities have been driven upwards by stock buybacks. Federal Reserve statistics show corresponding sales of stocks as executives exercised options to take advantage of manipulated prices. More ...

Securities Analysis

Operational versus financial information

The Crash of 2008 suggests that understanding the operational details of capital markets can be as important as financial analysis. This article discusses Capital Market Taxonomy in this context. More ...

US Politics

What is the future of private pension plans?

Between 1999 and 2002, US private pension funds lost US$ 1.2 trillion in value. It would almost seem that pension fund managers had been speculating with retirement money, attempting to beat each others' short-term performance statistics, with little interest in safeguarding the assets of plan beneficiaries. More ...

US equities

The productivity vs. population debate

The 'Baby Boomer Bomb' refers to the expected effect of the retirement of the Baby Boomer generation on capital markets, particularly equities. Two proposed 'solutions' to the problem are examined: Boomers being 'saved' by productivity and technology; and, alternatively, by selling their financial assets to the next generation..
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US Bonds

Bond demand exceeds supply for a decade

Over the decade, 1995-2004, the demand for US bonds of all types has surpassed new bond issues in eight of the last ten years. This is the reason that bond prices have held firm, even in 2003, when net new issues reached almost $1.8 trillion. More ...

World Economy

What Is ‘International Liquidity’?

It used to be that the term 'international liquidity' meant the relative amount of resources available to a nation's monetary authorities that could be used to settle a balance of payments deficit. In the days of the gold standard, this would mean access to gold that could be used to redeem a nation's currency held by foreigners. More ...

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