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Murder on the City Express – Who is Killing the London Stock Exchange’s Equity Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

peers on at least one significant measure – the market capitalization to Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) ratio. exchanges have seen a consistent rise in the aggregate market capitalization to GDP ratio since at least 2017, the equivalent metric for the U.K. As we underscored in a previous paper , while the U.S.

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Inaugural Report on the Health of Democratic Capitalism

Harvard Corporate Governance

The goal of the Denny Center Inaugural Report on the Health of Democratic Capitalism is to evaluate how well the benefits of free market capitalism are balanced with the needs and expectations of a democratic society, focusing primarily on the United States.

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Discretionary Investing by ‘Passive’ S&P 500 Funds

Harvard Corporate Governance

These deviations amount to over $60 billion in discretionary investment decisions, roughly equivalent to Target Corporation’s entire market capitalization. We analyze funds that track the S&P 500 – the most widely used index – and find their holdings regularly diverge from the index’s, by between 1.7% more…)

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The Venture Corporation

Harvard Corporate Governance

Firms that launched as venture-backed startups dominate US capital markets in terms of market capitalization and proportional weight of leading market indexes, and significantly contribute to US job creation. In some nations, startups are also significant contributors to the economy.

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The Credit Suisse Collapse and the Regulation of Banking

Harvard Corporate Governance

Four days later, however, with CS facing significant withdrawals, SNB chose not to provide additional liquidity but instead forced CS to sell itself on Sunday March 19 to UBS for less than half of the market capitalization CS had just several days ago.

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Do Activists Beat the Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

companies with market capitalizations greater than $500 million at the time of campaign announcement. In other words, not all activists are the alpha generators that they are made to seem, and the majority do not deliver on their campaign promises of outperformance beyond an immediate “pop.”

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Shiba Inu Edges Out Litecoin As 13th Biggest Crypto With 19% Surge

Benzinga

Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB ) surpassed Litecoin (CRYPTO: LTC ) to become the thirteenth largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization early on Wednesday. What Happened: At the time of writing, SHIB’s market cap stood at $6.9 billion, while Litecoin’s market cap was at $6.3