A STUDY ON FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BANKING STOCKS INTRODUCTION The stock market is the most volatile market and is similar to the weather. Though this does not mean that the markets cannot be predicted but it only means that trends may change without warning‚ as with weather. The stockmarkets are characterized by almost all factors‚ again starting right from weather and ending at the political environment. Effects of one market also causes as pillover into the other and an external cause in one
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 “I have no fear for the future of our country”(Washington‚ page 1)‚ that is what President Herbert Hoover said during his inaugural speech to ensure brightness and hope for the country after the stock market crashed on October 29‚ 1929. The Stock market crash of 1929 had a huge impact on American society by putting out businesses and causing hundreds of people to lose their jobs and homes‚ it led to the point where people committed suicide rather than living in a depressed
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the investment challange was to maximize expected returns by investing in risky assets. We pursued an active trading strategy and as general rule bought stocks when the prices were relatively low in comparison to historical prices and sold them when the prices were high. At the end of the challenge 58.94% of our potrolifio was invested in stocks‚ 9.74% in bonds‚ 7.63% in equities and 23.67% in currencies. We started the Challenge with a global value of 1‚000‚000 USD and this value ranged between
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Case Problem 1: Measuring Stock Market Risk As indicated by the case study S&P 500 index was use as a measure of the total return for the stock market. Our standard deviation of the total return was used as a one measure of the risk of an individual stock. Also betas for individual stocks are determined by simple linear regression. The variables were: total return for the stock as the dependent variable and independent variable is the total return for the stock. Since the descriptive statistics
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BDO Case Study – “Accounting for Stock Options” Congratulations‚ your firm has just won a new engagement for the December 31‚ 2012 audit of Stock It (the Company). You are the lead senior on the engagement and thus were delegated the task of auditing the client’s equity balances. In review‚ you noted that the client has a significant amount of stock options issued to their employees‚ a means that many start-up companies use to compensate employees and entice them to put in the effort to make the
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possible meaning of the changes in stock price for Berkshire Hathaway and Scottish Power plc on the day of the acquisition announcement? Specifically‚ what does the $2.55 billion gain in Berkshire’s market value of equity imply about the intrinsic value of PacifiCorp? 2. Based on the multiples for comparable regulated utilities‚ what is the range of possible values for PacifiCorp? What questions might you have about this range? 3. Assess the bid for PacifiCorp. How does it compare with the firm’s intrinsic
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GMRe: GM stock recommendation After reading Jeff Bennett and Sharon Terlep’s recent article‚ “U.S. Balks at GM Plan” in the 17 September‚ 2012 issue of the Wall Street Journal‚ I would like to make recommendation on when it would be best to allow GM to buy back 200 million shares from Treasury. In order to make this decision‚ I suggest analyzing from two aspects. One is the political influence. When should Treasury accept the buyback offer‚ so that can benefit the Obama administration? The other
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Exchange Commission (SEC) is the cause for the demise of the Committee on Accounting Procedure (CAP) of the AICPA and the Accounting Principle Board. When the stock market crashed in 1929‚ many of investors lost their life savings in the market crash. “There is a generally held opinion that accounting practices of the 1920s contributed to the stock market crash of 1929” (Roberts‚ (2011‚ para. 2). The accounting regulations emerged immediately after the crash‚ and the Securities Act of 1934 organization
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one of the largest stock crashes in history. This crash was caused by many things‚ I will be looking at the three main reasons below. Although only 16% of Americans owned stock at that point in time‚ the crash is usually considered the stating point of the great depression. The main reason the stock market crashed was mass panic and herd mentality. Investors had said that the market had been to good for to long and would crash soon. so some people started to sell their stocks‚ others thought that
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Depression/Stock market Crash of 1929 The stock market crash of 1929 was the most significant crash in U.S. history. The crash began on October 24‚ 1929‚ the stock market opened at 305.85‚ falling 11% during day trading. It regained just 2% down for the day‚ the Wall Street bankers were worried because trading was triple the normal volume. They bought stocks to prop up the market but‚ it fell again on Black Friday. The stock market ended with a stampede out of the stock market on Black Tuesday
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