Companies’ Stock Buybacks Help Buoy the Market Share Repurchases Are at Fastest Clip Since Financial Crisis By DAN STRUMPF Sept. 15‚ 2014 7:24 p.m. ET Companies are buying their own shares at the briskest clip since the financial crisis‚ helping fuel a stock rally amid a broad trading slowdown. Corporations bought back $338.3 billion of stock in the first half of the year‚ the most for any six-month period since 2007‚ according to research firm Birinyi Associates. Through August‚ 740 firms have
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Sensex is basically an indicator of the health of the stock markets in India. It is the most popular stock market index in India. It is just a number and the value of Sensex is closely followed by a number of investors‚ promoters‚ market experts‚ brokers and several other stakeholders not only in India but across the world. One can know the relative strength or weakness of the Indian stock market by the movement of Sensex on the Bombay Stock Exchange‚ popularly known as BSE. Sensex is an acronym
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Memo To: Rajat Singh‚ managing director at Hudson Bancorp From: Date: 08/01/2002 Re: Stock Repurchase Program Recommendation The purpose of this memo is to examine whether Deluxe Corporation should increase borrowings to buyback stocks. After considerable analysis of the company’s financial position‚ we recommend that Deluxe Corp. to borrow up to $1.023 billion to buy back 34‚175 shares. In order to achieve this‚ Deluxe will need to lower its bond rating from A rating to BBB ‚ which results
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Impact of Corporate Governance on Stock Market Performance Farah Rezwan Reyan Zeenat Hai Nogmaye Habiba Abstract The paper aims to establish a relationship between Corporate Governance and stock market performance. In doing so‚ several variables had been identified by a thorough review of literature. These variables were measured on the basis of their performance‚ in respect to developed and developing countries‚ in relation to Corporate Governance. The performance measures were done by using
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Joint-Stock Company: A joint-stock company is a business entity which is owned by shareholders. Each shareholder owns the portion of the company in proportion to his or her ownership of the company’s shares (certificates of ownership). This allows for the unequal ownership of a business with some shareholders owning a larger proportion of a company than others. Shareholders are able to transfer their shares to others without any effects to the continued existence of the company. In modern corporate
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A PRESENTATION REPORT ON ROLE AND FUNCTIONS OF STOCK EXCHANGE INTRODUCTION A stock exchange is a form of exchange which provides services for stock brokers and traders to trade stocks‚ bonds‚ and other securities. Stock exchanges also provide facilities for issue and redemption of securities and other financial instruments‚ and capital events including the payment of income and dividends. Securities traded on a stock exchange include shares issued by companies‚ unit trusts‚ derivatives‚ pooled
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Another way is to use money is to invest it to shares. Although the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was devastating to the United States of America‚ it opened the eyes of the civilians to what money can really do the nation. The stock market had become very popular in the 1920’s. It was organized in 1792 by a group of stockbrokers‚ people who arrange the sale of stocks‚ looking for a more efficient way to buy and sell stocks. The stock market was a way for businesses to get financial support to expand
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Introduction The causes of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 vary between many different factors some of which have not been proven or they are not sufficient and cannot be claimed as valid. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was a cause of the Great Depression and was the biggest economic disaster in the stock markets ever. The crash revealed a lot of things about the economy during the time period of 1929. There were many different causes of the stock market crashing‚ but these are believed to be the
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SAMUELSON’S DICTUM AND THE STOCK MARKET BY JEEMAN JUNG and ROBERT J. SHILLER COWLES FOUNDATION PAPER NO. 1183 COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS YALE UNIVERSITY Box 208281 New Haven‚ Connecticut 06520-8281 2006 http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/ SAMUELSON’S DICTUM AND THE STOCK MARKET JEEMAN JUNG and ROBERT J. SHILLER* Samuelson has offered the dictum that the stock market is ‘‘micro efficient’’ but ‘‘macro inefficient.’’ That is‚ the efficient markets hypothesis works much better
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1929‚ known as Black Thursday marked the worst stock market crash in U.S. history as unsettled investors sold off their investments as the skyrocketing stock prices plummeted into a free fall. Yet‚ what influenced the initial price of a stock to increase and how did the market crash suddenly? At a fundamental level‚ the supply and demand in the market determine the stock price. If more stock investors are buying stocks than selling‚ the price of the stock increases. While‚ if more investors are selling
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