together to pool their capital and invest in a particular opportunity. These firms usually buy undervalued or underappreciated companies, improve them and then sell them at a profit. After buying a company, the private equity firm removes it from the stock market so that it can take crucial decisions without being answerable to shareholders or the public in general. By making the company private, the firm is answerable only to its small group of investors. Private equity firms receive a return…
Facts PlexCorp is a company that raised $15 million of fraudulent money by selling ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). It sold 81 million coins out of the 400 million total that were available. The company got thousands of investors, and promised if all 400 million coins were sold, it would guarantee its investors "returns of 1,354 % in under 29 days." The company is charged with violating security laws and defrauding investors. The SEC is in charge of "protecting investors, maintaining fair and…
Such a communication was also made to the stock exchanges and shareholders. Subsequently the IT dept. issued a notice for payment of tax and penalty. VODAFONE’S DEFENSE In Oct.2007, Vodafone filed a writ petition with the Bombay High Court. The primary argument by Vodafone was that this is a case of…
The indicated capitalization rate for this investment based on the information provided is 8.20% indicating the value of this property to be $7,317,073 or $7,320,000 rounded. I base this conclusion on the following calculations: • The mortgage constant is .085972 calculated using the following HP-12C keystrokes: F Clx 1 PV 6 g i 20 g n PMT 12 x • The percent paid off on the mortgage after 5 years is 15.1004% calculated using the following HP-12C keystrokes: F Clx 6 g i 20 g n 1 PV PMT 5 g n FV…
Zaozhuang coal mine development has a long history, created in 1880 ZhongXing is the beginning of Zaozhuang Coal Mining Bureau. ZhongXing departmental operations for 16 years, a slim 12, out of about 2 million tons of coal. In 1895, the ban was closed. The spring of 1899, Yan Yi Cao Jibing taotai Zhang Lianfen and Zhang Shi read Bachelor Yiding cabinet meeting, ZhongXing joint rectification Bureau, Guan Yi County Bureau of commercial office complex, named Shandong Huade Yi County Zhongxing…
Sridhar Gogineni in his article The Stock Market Reaction to Oil Price Changes analyzed the stock market’s reaction to oil price changes. Considering the level of interest in oil prices and their supposed impact on the stock market, While the stock market is sensitive to oil price changes, financial media seems to over play the supposed impact of oil prices. Oil price changes most likely caused due to supply shifts, i.e., large price changes over a one-day horizon and price changes during the…
Derivatives e.g swaps and futures are mainly used to assist CAO (China Aviation Oil) in enhancing their procurement proficiency and hedging tool in the beginning to reduce the risk in their daily trading activities. Eventually derivatives are used in speculative trading without having a proper risk management environment in place in hope to gain more profit from the positive market movement. When the trading was done at the start, Mr Chen Juilin the managing director and CEO of the company, was…
In Julie Jargon and Jesse Newman’s article, “Fresh Ingredients Came Back to Haunt Chipotle”, the authors discuss how Chipotle is phasing their way out of a major decline in their company. Chipotle is a chain currently suffering due to heath safety issues, and because of this, their sales have dramatically fallen. Chipotle was once a leading company as the article notes: “Steve Ellis built Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. into a restaurant-industry leader by playing offense, brashly touting fresher…
Bernie Madoff was a master at impression management or social engineering. According to psychiatrists impression management has three goals. Ingratiation, this means to convey displaying certain positive emotions such as happiness to mimic good will. Intimidation to strike fear into the hearts of the people you want to fool, and supplication to get others to be helpful. These 3 qualities describe Bernie Madoff to a tea. All these characteristics work together to fool your victim into perceiving…
1.1 Overview of “The world is flat” by Thomas. L. Friedman Friedman has divided the globalization history into three important parts as Globalization 1.0(1492-1800), Globalization 2.0 (1800-2000) and Globalization 3.0 (2000 onwards) where the world shrank from large to medium (country globalization), medium to small (companies globalization) and small to tiny (individual globalization) respectively. The author has stated the 10 factors that have played a crucial role in flattening the world as…