Globalization, “the tendency of investment funds and business to move beyond domestic and national markets to other markets around the globe, thereby increasing the interconnectedness of different markets” (Investopedia, para1), has two sides; the good side and the bad.…
1. Recently, you sold 1,000 shares of stock for $21,400. The sale was a short sale with an initial margin requirement of 60 percent. The maintenance margin is 30 percent. The stock is currently trading at $27.50 a share. What is your current margin position in this stock?…
6.1 The degree of political risk faced by a firm operating in a foreign country…
Organizations encounter financial risks in business everyday, especially when looking at capital budgeting. An organization can use capital budgeting techniques like; cost of capital, Net Present Value, and Internal rate of Return to value the amount of risk the organization is willing to take. When an organization decides to venture into the international arena different risks need to be analyzed. Some of the main International investment concerns are Exchange Rate Risk, Political Risk, and Cultural Risk. We will look at how these concerns can effect international investing and what tools are out there to help mitigate the risk.…
2. The percentage of a portfolio’s total value invested in a particular asset is called that asset’s:…
Chapter 2 talks about the inherited instability of the financial markets including opinions from generations of economists including Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill….…
Globalisation can often have a positive effect on economic growth around the globe, resulting in higher living standards for citizens. Increased wealth can be spent on the improvement of services such as health and education, and more disposable income for populations can be spent on necessities such as food, but also on consumer luxuries. The ability of nations to export and produce consumer goods to other areas of the world ensures a much larger market, avoiding over-saturation and more customers to support sales. Increased trade and transport links mean the accessibility of both imports and exports is greater and more efficient, ensuring a country can both gain and sell assets to ensure it can develop and function properly. Globalisation also provides more capacity for investment in companies and industries all over the globe, ensuring room for economic growth and development. It is easy to find examples of over-saturated markets crippling economies; indeed, the famous 1929 Wall Street crash in America was partly due to a market over-saturated with…
What James, is trying to state in his article is that the absence of cheap energy or relative world peace will lead to the extinction of globalization, as the world has experienced before in 1914 during the First World War. However from 1870 – 1914 the world saw an overall economic boom attributed to a number of factors specifically; relative stability, efficiency in production, coal and steam power and innovations in finance. During the first collapse, the world was transitioning…
The first concept I would like to discuss is globalization. The author states that companies are becoming borderless and stateless in order to transform themselves into a global business. This causes an interdependence of national economies, thus transforming individual markets into a global financial market. I think that although globalization has been necessary for firms to hold onto a competitive edge, it does have disadvantages and we are feeling them today in what we have labeled as a ‘global economic downturn’. The globalization of businesses may have a positive effect in some economies, but the effect felt in the United States has not been completely positive. Many of the manufacturing jobs and other jobs as well have been outsourced to foreign nations. This has a detrimental effect on Americans that can no longer find jobs or find a job paying a livable wage. It also is difficult for small and local businesses to remain competitive. It is very troubling to think of businesses in each particular market or specialty competing and eliminating each other one by one. This creates industry ‘giants’. Without competition, greed ran run rampant. It seems like globalization has greatly contributed to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.…
Globalization is process of integration. It is spread all through several fields, such as politics, culture, economy, technology and the environment. Internationally, these fields are going through a period of conversion and evolution causing this world to turn out to be homogenous and flat. Even nations in the Third World are having the prospects only the developed countries once had to emerge into affluence. In fact, globalization is not new. Numerous events through which this course is evident have been going on for many years. However, between the late 20th century and early 21st century, the process of globalization has intensified. According to Jones (2010), a number of thinkers, including Friedman and Stiglitz, say that economy is the driving force behind globalization.…
After 1999, the global economy had a rapid growth because of the high-speed development of developing countries. The developing economies covered over 30 percent of the global trade (United Nations, 2012). The savings from those countries make the global savings available for investment have a significant increase. This gave investors a lot of temptation to use these money. The lenders use these savings to make high return investments, and the borrowers use…
In September of 2008, the economy started to crash due to the effects of globalizing and free trade. When free trade was set into motion and globalization was started, it caused many people to either make less money, or lose their job completely. In the quote Zoelick says, “... As always, the poor are the most defenseless...” and this statement clearly demonstrates the third-world countries, and the people that were affected by free trade in efforts to globalize the economy. The government’s that were governing people, as well as the international organizations were pursuing the idea that free trade was going to benefit all of the people. Through change of foreign policy and free trade, people’s rights were different and they lost their wages, and in some cases total job loss. The people of the nations were convinced that free trade was in their best interest and also within their national interest. It would help to promote and build other undeveloped countries, while providing economic stability to those striving to produce more for free trade. In developing countries, they were placed at a disadvantage because they were placed in the same economic stream as the big corporations, which caused the corporations to get goods for cheaper and…
Allocation from cost centres were based on cost centre manager’s estimation. Royalty expenses were charged to the New York office.…
1. The major advantage of investing in common stocks is that generally an investor would earn a higher rate of return than on corporate bonds. Also, while the return on bonds is pre-specified and fixed, the return on common stocks can be substantially higher if the investor can pick a "winner" --i.e., if the company's performance turns out to be better than current market expectations. The main disadvantage of common stock ownership is the higher risk. While the income on bonds is certain (except in the extreme case of bankruptcy), the return on stocks will vary depending upon the future performance of the company and could well be negative.…
Shriber, T., (2010). Watch out for these 10 ETFs with high political risk. Investment answers. Retrieved from http://www.investinganswers.com/investment-ideas/mutual-funds-etfs/watch-out-these-10-etfs-high-political-risk-1193…