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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

Musings on Markets

The notion of computing a cost of capital for a bank is fanciful and fruitless, and any attempt to compute an enterprise value for a bank is destined to end in failure. The other was that the bank regulatory framework operated effectively , preventing banks from overreaching on risk or being under capitalized.

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Is BP’s new strategy – full focus on profits – viable in the long term?

Valutico

Furthermore, the company increased dividends by 10% and announced that it will buy back GBP 2.3 (USD At this year’s event this goal was reduced by 15%, meaning fossil fuel output will only decrease by 25% by 2030. Due to these high earnings, the company was able to pay back GBP 7.5 (USD billion worth of shares.

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The Determinants and Consequences of Appointing Activist Directors

Reynolds Holding

Activist Directors – Characteristics Of the 3,259 activism events targeting U.S. In a recent paper, we examined the characteristics of activist directors, the circumstances surrounding their appointments, and their impact on the board.

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The Class Certification of Exchange-Listed Options in Securities Class-Action Litigation

Reynolds Holding

For example, market makers generate quotations for exchange-listed options by deriving their value from real-time stock prices and five additional factors: exercise price, the risk-free interest rate, time to expiration, volatility of the stock, and dividends. 4] Unger v. Amedisys [5] and Krogman v. Comcast Corp.

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Financial Reporting in the COVID-19 Era for Accounting Professionals

ThomsonReuters

If an assessment of financials reveals substantial doubt about your ability to continue as a going concern, the reasons why must be reported, as well as any actions your company plans to take to address the adverse circumstances or events that have affected it. Do you have a shortage of working capital?

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Regency Centers to Acquire Urstadt Biddle Properties in All-Stock Transaction

Benzinga

The combined company is expected to have a pro forma equity market capitalization of approximately $11 billion and total enterprise value of approximately $16 billion. UBP is expected to align the timing of its quarterly dividend payments to Regency's during the pendency of the merger.

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META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

Musings on Markets

In this post, I want to focus on that point, starting with a discussion of why stories matter to investors and traders and the story that propelled the company to a trillion-dollar market capitalization not that long ago. billion in revenues in 2021.