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Investment Alternatives In order to properly utilize the assets of an organization, an organization needs to understand how to properly analyze various investments, how to project cash flows from alternative investments and how to raise funds to finance alternative projects. Having a thorough understanding of how the stock market works and how individual stocks are performing in comparison is a key to making sound investment decisions. The alternatives explored in this case are whether an investment should be made in Coca-Cola, a well-established United States (U.S.) based beverage company, or in Amazon, an internet cloud U.S. based retailer. Similarities are that they are both U.S. based companies with retail divisions, and in…

the stock market. The article in Fortune deliberates how the stock markets will perform based on the “Super Bowl predictor”—a theory popularized by the stock analyst Robert H. Stovall, after sportswriter Leonard Koppett first discovered that the subdivisions in which the Super Bowl winners belonged to, correlated with the rise or fall of the “Dow Jones Industrial Average” the concurrent year (Fortune). Similarly, the article by The Telegraph assesses the phenomenon…

Speculators who hadn 't lost all their money in the crash couldn 't resist buying stocks while the prices were so low. Feeling this was their chance, many poorer people who couldn 't usually afford to invest showed up at brokers offices eager to buy. Unfortunately this recovery was short lived. Less than a month later, the stock market again took a turn for the worse. The Dow fell once again, erasing almost all its gains since 1928.20 Many speculators, previously some of the wealthiest people in…

Donald Trump has benefitted the United States by reducing regulations and allowing jobs to prosper, winning the Presidency while running against a politically elite figure, and succeeding as a businessman and helping to inform his fellow Americans about business. As many Americans know, Donald Trump is the forty-fifth President of the united States, with lots and lots of previous experiences and events in his life. . His previous occupations include being a big and small time businessman and a…

Electric 2000 Merger Sub, Inc.” with Honeywell (HON), a rival industrial conglomerate. GE is an American multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is the only company listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Index today that was also included in the original index in 1896. In 2000, General Electric employed 223,000 people in over one hundred countries, counting 85,000 in Europe only , and reported net earnings of $13billion on revenue of $130billion. General…

at the time these saving practices carried over even after the war was over. The American people began to look for other opportunities to invest their money and the brokers of the New York Stock Exchange were happy to accommodate them by showing them exactly where they could invest it. The loose credit policies of this time mixed with the increased interest in the stock market were the perfect ingredients to create a deadly cocktail for the market. The markets rose faster than anyone could have…

extremely hard aluminum oxide. This mineral is found in a crystalline form. Some precious stones such as rubies and sapphires are some types of corundum. 3M mined out of a mine known as Crystal Bay. Although this was the intention function of the company they have since moved into the huge industry leader it is today. 3M focus has since shifted into mining other materials and developing products. Since its…

General Electric Company is the world’s global digital industrial company that introduces software-defined machines to create solutions in the industry1. They have been a Fortune 500 company for 21 years2. GE is listed on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) in the United States, and many others for non-U.S. exchanges3. Over the years they have broadened their technologies and services into eight different industrial operating segments and one financial services operating segment4. Industrial…

During the summer of 2013, I was employed by the Dow Chemical Company as a Maintenance and Reliability Engineer. I was located in Deer Park, Texas at their acrylates facility. My time there was only for the summer, which meant I was limited to thirteen weeks to complete my projects. The main project that I worked on while employed there was to install a filtration system for the circulator pumps. There are over sixty pumps throughout the site and they were all failing at different times due to…

Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal - India The impact(s) of this incident. The Union Carbide Catastrophe is one of the world’s devastating and life-threatening events, which have claimed for many lives of people and it is reported that it continues to today. Based on the play, the Union Carbide Catastrophe is a 33 years incident that happened in Bhopal India on 4th December 1984; released nearly 40 tons of highly toxic gas or poisonous gases known as methyl isocyanate. According to the play, at…