Stock Market Article Reviews Samples For Students

Summary

Trading investment is growing at a faster rate and the market structure is changing fundamentally such that business people have indicated presence of low frequency trading opportunities (Maureen, 2014). The chances to purchase are not limited but buyers are few and this has tempted most investors to look for fatter gains. Consequently, this has created the need for implimenting smarter ideas inorder to survive in the market. In fact, by adopting business strategies which are appropriate for the better frequency in business world, investors can get reasonable gains. Otherwise most investments involve some degree of risks like the ...

ARTICLE REVIEW

This article deals with an important topic in finance. The article is related to increase in earnings for Australian companies and how this affects the sentiments of investors ,which in turn affect the value of the stock index. The major finding of this article is that ASX 200 index , that is an index made up of the 200 of the biggest companies in Australia by market capitalization has increased in value.
The major sectors which have experienced increased in earnings are the resource sector and the banking sector. Specifically amongst the resource sector Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, ...

The article by Ameriprise financial institute states that the goal of any investor is to minimize losses and maximize profits. It further states that investment and business management involves various risks that may occur from time to time. However, the article does not mention the types of risks that may occur in the course of business. Furthermore, it states that individuals should save enough income for their retirement benefits, mortgages and funds to cater for their health at old age. Ominously, it fails to elucidate health insurance that is known to be the most important constituent of the business ...

“Walmart Warns about Holiday Earnings’

This article discusses the issue of decreased earnings from major retailers like Walmart and Target. The author examines holiday earnings and finds that they are a bit up from last year but not enough to combat the loss over the last three months. Retailers blame the cut back on food stamps and the unusually cold winter for causing economic distress upon their main customer base. The government’s cut back on government programs, while seen as a cause of distress for retailers, is considered essential to managing the government’s own economic problems. While I can see both sides of the ...

Rewards and Risks in Stock Markets

The study involves insights into returns provided as well as a summary of South Asia’s stock exchange risk behavior. The article aims at establishing whether there has been a significant difference on the risk and returns associated with the stock market over time. The study finally attempts to make a suggestion regarding the stock market that provides profitable avenue among the SAARC nations. The study also makes use of descriptive statistics such as average annual return, mean percent return, standard deviation, maximum and minimum return, skewness, Jarque Bera statistic and Kurtosis for the six series stock exchanges, namely: Dhaka Stock Exchange ( ...

White collar crimes are financially motivated and non-violent crimes majorly committed by people of high social status. The term “white collar crime” was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland in his speech to the American Sociological Society.White collar crimes are difficult to detect and prosecute. Perpetrators employ highly sophisticated methods to commit crimes and hide the heinous activities through a chain of complex financial transactions. Punishment for these crimes involve: incarceration, restitution, community service, probation, criminal forfeiture, fines or disgorgement.

Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme-Forbes Magazine

This prominent investor was involved in a Ponzi investment scam with the Madoff’s Hedge Fund. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent ...

A survey on America’s best companies in the book In Search for Excellence identified the best managed and also the “unexcellent” companies. The survey came up with two results that were striking. One, there was evident reversion in the mean whereby the growth and lucrativeness of the best companies did slow down after long time periods. Secondly, the “unexcellent” companies outperformed the S&P 500 by over 12%. In the 1988- 1992 period, there was a domination by reversion in the price/ earnings and price to book ratios (Clayman, 1994). Large capitalization stocks vividly outdid the smaller capitalization stocks. There ...

Expected stock return reefers to the amount expected to be received on an investment such as stock, which has diverse known rated of return. For instance, in a stock, which had 20% probability of producing 5% profit and a 20% probability of producing 2% loss, the expected return would be 0.1% (0.2* 0.05+0.2-0.02). This essay seeks to examine the two measureable variables, which are used to capture the cross sectional variation in average stock returns attributed with the market β, size, earning price, leverage and book-to market equity. The variables include are size and book to market equity.
As a point ...

In the stock market, calendar anomalies involving day of the week, weekend and January effects have gained considerable significance and interest among investors. Recently, studies have been conducted in an attempt to examine the association and effect that the day of the week phenomenon has on large equity bourses like London stock exchange. Essentially, evidence reveals that low stock returns have been obtained during the first day of the week as opposed to the rest of the days. In fact, the application of efficient market theory has different impacts on the returns in the stock market because it has ...

Situations that might lead to unethical practices and behavior in accounting

Opportunity is one aspect that may lead to unethical practice in accounting. Accountants normally encounter or are involved in transactions that have large sums of money changing hands. As such, the constant access to this money may provide the best opportunity for an individual to start siphoning small amounts of money, which cannot be easily recognized since the transactions deal with huge amounts of money. For instance, in transactions that involve billions, an accountant may decide to be siphoning as little as 100 dollars. Increasing financial needs make people to seek opportunities that may lead to unethical practices.
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There are many foreigners who own property in the US. The current property law in the US does not tax foreigners who acquire property in the US. However, foreign investors are expected to fill in survey documents that are filled by all foreign investors. The information that is provided in the survey depends on the aggregate property that an individual owns in the US real property market.
Taxation on source income is determined by the nature of the income, al income that is received from the owners of real property is considered to be income to the US, ...

“Discussing Kenya’s business environment and the upcoming elections,” is an article by Mulupi Dinfin looking into the political environment of Kenya at general elections. In the article, Mulupi holds a discussion with Richard Kiplagat, a director at Consultancy Africa Practice East Africa, regarding what should be expected from the elections and its impact on business. According to Mulupi, Kiplagat forecasts that Kenya will not experience another political violence following another violence that occurred after the previous elections in 2007 (1). Kiplagat further explains his argument pointing out that there is no single political party that wishes to be associated with ...

Business

It is ethically wrong for the LPS Company to employ improper fee structure which results to double-billing the mortgage investors for legal services which is related to the processing of the foreclosures and the bankruptcies. Timaraos (2013). this is actually ethically wrong.
The company’s ethical duty could have been to provide the right information to the clients rather than exploiting them on the basis of providing them with the improper fee structure which resulted to double-billing their mortgage for legal services which is related to the processing of the foreclosures and the bankruptcies. I therefore propose that ...

Log Assignment #1: DOJ/SEC Drop Bribery Probes of 3M

In an article written by Matthews (2012), the author disclosed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reportedly dropped their probe on allegations of bribery for 3M, in the company’s subsidiary transactions and dealings in Turkey. The report indicated that no charges were made since 3M, which voluntarily initiated the investigations, were noted to cooperate and disclose all crucial information. The investigations were actually delved into in an effort to intensify 3M’s corporate compliance and adherence to ethical standards.
One strongly admired the move as initiated by 3M to investigate ...

Advertising as an intangible asset

The article Advertising as an Intangible Asset and the Value of a Multinational Corporation by Anse Balas and Halil Kaya is an investigation of if investors identify advertizing as an important intangible asset. The article set to expound on the effect of advertizing account change announcements and new account announcement on share holders’ wealth.
This article is mainly directed to the management of Multi National Corporation. It is especially targeting the advertizing departments of these Multi National Corporations. The managements of Multi National Corporations are responsible in ensuring that the value of stocks in the market remains stable to ...

The orange county, a municipality in United States was declared bankrupt on 6th December 1994 after loosing about $1.6 billions due to risky investment strategies i.e. over leveraging purchases of structured notes and fixed income securities.

Robert Citron who was the county treasure gambled with $7.5 billion public pool with a strategy of borrowing short to go long. Being a star performer he wanted to raise higher income without increasing the taxes, as he believed that medium term investments had higher returns than short term investments. Citron entered into reverse repurchase agreement where he used the pool’s securities as collateral to ...

THEORY, EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

AND IMPLICATORS

Link between Default an. The d Recovery Rates

The article gives a detailed analysis and measurement of the relationships that exists between the rates of recovery as well as the aggregate default. It also seeks to show the empirical relationship that exists between them. The article gives a review of how models of credit risk would implicitly or explicitly work with the given recovery rate variable. The article also focuses on the rate of recovery of corporate bonds that were defaulted in the period between 1982 and 2002. Additionally, the article attempts to give an explanation of the rates ...

Many financial experts believe that international portfolio diversification substantially reduces the risk of an individual’s investment. Burhan Yavas gave this issue a critical look in his research entitled “Benefits of International Portfolio Diversification”. Yavas showed that foreign investment is a viable means to spreading the risk of investment. Although foreign investment is advantageous for diversification, investors should investigate underlying aspects that determine the success of international portfolio diversification.

The research carried out by Yavas rightly concludes that investors should consider foreign investment as a feasible means to diversifying their assets because foreign equities offer decent returns. Therefore, it is crucial for ...

The William Boston’s article titled “Merkel Backs Bond Buying Program” reports the move by the German Chancellor, at a summer news conference in Berlin, to back the process of buying bonds by the European Central Bank (ECB) in a move that could only be perceived as an endorsement of the ECB president, Mario Draghi, in a manner that would not in any way undermine the position of Germany’s Central Bank (The Bundesbank), whose president, Jens Weidmann, has been a strong critic of the bond-buying process. According Boston, Merkel, while professing her incertitude about the ability of Europe to establish a common regulator for ...

The article Fun with Numbers: Disclosing Risk to Individual Investors by Cristian Weller discusses the topic of investors’ awareness of the risks associated with various investment opportunities and the challenges related to quantifying those risks. The author claims that information is key to making better investment decisions that is why it is important for the governments and financial institutions to provide more relevant, accessible and concise information. Unfortunately, in the majority of cases it is impossible to achieve all the three characteristics of information quality, therefore the decisions made based on imprecise information can be inferior to those made ...

The recent financial crisis and its causes.

Financial crisis is a situation whereby people lose confidence in the banking sector and therefore their investments in many countries is affected. The value of the assets owned by the financial institutions and other investors reduce in value to a great extent (WIEDEMER, 2012). This has adverse effects in the economy of many countries. The recent financial crisis has resulted to many problems in the whole world. According to the article by Gordon and Metric, the major cause of the financial crisis is the increase in debt of various countries. Both public and private debt was behind the cause of the ...

p. 19-33 Victoria, R., Banwart, S., Black, H., Ingram, J., Joosten, H. Milne, E. and Noellemeyer, E. Synopsis of the Article

According to Victoria et al. (2012), the global demand for food has escalated by over 50% with the demand for water and energy heightening by up to 60% and 45% respectively. These increases have consequentially mounted a tremendous pressure on the world’s soils. In this light, the authors contend that soil plays an all-important role in the stabilization of the world’s climate, water supplies and most importantly biodiversity.

With an intention to emphasize the importance of soil ...

Article Review

Executive summary
Since the 2008 recession—when financial instability resulted in the losses and insolvency of several banks and firms—there is an increased cautiousness about international investments and lending experiences in not just the emerging-market countries, but in any foreign soil. This article discusses the use of bonds by firms investing in international markets to avoid the adversities caused by exchange-rate fluctuations. While foreign-exchange risk is still being hedged by currency swaps and futures contracts, bonds in the local currency are being used increasingly by investing companies. They use the cash flow generated from the sales in ...

Risk, Return, and Portfolio Allocation: Why Stocks Are Less Risky Than Bonds in the Long Run

Risk, Return, and Portfolio Allocation: Why Stocks Are Less Risky Than Bonds in the Long Run

Summary of Chapter 2:

In the current article by Siegel J. J, the main idea explained is that the risk associated with the corporate bonds and the stocks is based on the market value in the future. The main focus of the article is on the lower risk levels long term investments in stocks as compared to the investments in the bonds. The techniques used in the article are analyzing the historical data and few statistical formulas such as correlation and the standard deviation. At the same ...

Stock market is a set of financial institutions, the leading securities trading. It consists of stock exchanges, as well as a vast array of other institutions that form the OTC market. The increase of the value of stock markets in both the national and global economy, happened due to important functional role of these markets. According to the stock market there is a transformation of accumulated savings into real investments, carried out capital mobility between sectors and countries, and securities courses provide investors with the necessary information about the direction of efficient investment.
World stock market is divided into ...

Figuring out a path for life is something that the youth find hard to establish. This is because there are a lot of options that add up from going to college, getting employed, doing both or even starting up a business. The options depend on the circumstances and the final decision of the person. This is why brainstorming is important in that it identifies for you what you need through comparing different strategies and options in life. Researching is also an important method to find out what works and how it can work.
Anyone starting up has to be ...

Lan, J.Z. (2012). Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis. American Association of Individual Investors. 1.1. 16-20

Summary

There are many users of financial statements that include the management, investors, creditors, government, and employees. This article was targeted at helping investors on how to use the financial statements in order to make informed investment decisions. The article discusses the three main financial statements that firms publish namely; the income statement, the balance sheet, and the cash flow statement.
The income statement shows the investors how much sales and income that a company generated over a period of time usually twelve months. The ...

Investing in securities is a current strategy in business and it tends to guarantee the profit making ventures of an organization. It is the reason that organizations have to trade in securities and since securities are flexible fits, organizations are bound to make profits on the positive side but they can again loose on the negative side. It means that trading in securities requires an amount of effort in predictions and studies on the most probable security to invest in.
There are a number of strategies used in order to invest in securities. These strategies depend on a number ...

The paper looks at the UAE stock exchange industry and the mergers between DFM-ND and ADX. The article further evaluates the risks and the business implications. According to the article, the security exchange market has grown to be a potential investment for many people in the world. Large players in the market such as the NYSE look at mergers with smaller security exchange markets in order to boost their revenues. The public stock exchanges have moved to acquire models that are for increased profits and cost effectiveness. As a result, there has been a growth in competition between the ...

-The question of Human Capital
The article by Nanette Byrnes considers an important question relating to everyone’s financial lives (Byrnes, 2010, p. 1). The question is, can people be stock like or bond like in their characteristics. The article points out these characteristics as the age of the person, job type that a person has, whether this job can be affected by volatility in the stock markets etc. Hence the issue being inspected is ‘Diversification’ in investment. While considering where to invest; wealth management gurus stress the need to diversify. Traditionally, this exercise includes allocating resources to different ...

Abstract

The impacts of an enterprise’s dividend policy on share prices wield considerable significance to the investors, economists, and corporate officials. The economists try to appraise and understand the operations of the capital markets, the corporate officials institute the guidelines, while the investors plan the portfolios. Throughout the process, several queries arise: Do the firms with substantial distribution policies sell their premiums over those with negligible payouts? If yes, under what circumstances? Is there a standard series of ratios or payouts that can maximize the share prices? The three questions have been the focus of various studies, but the ...

In his article, Ibbotson (2010) investigates the impact of a long-term asset allocation policy on portfolio performance against that of active management with respect to security selection and market timing. The paper draws its inferences from reviewing existing literature on empirical studies examining the same. The issue of contention arises from conclusions made by Brinson, Hood, and Beebower (BHB, 1986) that asset allocation policy was responsible for more than 90% of the return variations of an average fund over time, with market timing and security selection playing minor roles. In contrast, the critics of the BHB model (e.g. Ibbotson ...

Article Review: Japan’s Growth Strategy is All Wrong

Abstract
The article Japan’s growth strategy is all wrong is about the policies implemented by the Japan government led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that is viewed to jeopardise the country’s low interest rate environment that is conducive for spending and investment. The purpose of the student in writing this paper is to present the economic problem faced by Japan as an implication of the policies executed by the government, applying the concepts and principles that I have learned in my Economics.
The article entitled Japan’s growth strategy is all wrong is about the ...

Abstract

Since the inception of the modern technologies, the world of business has really evolved. The hi-tech transport and communication facilities have made it possible for countries to import and export goods and services. This has led to the emergence of global and regional business powers. UK has a stake in international business, as shown in the essay below.

UK in International Business

1. UK Government role in international trades & international investment.

Sine time immemorial, the UK has been a key player in businesses around the world. This dates back to the Trans-Saharan trade, the triangular trade and the slave trade. During all these periods, ...

Crowdfunding programs such as Indiegogo, Fundable, and Kickstarter are currently responsible for the emergence of exceptional projects. The sites utilize the gains from pledges and popularity to create a competitive environment for the investors to acquire an interest in funding startup ideas and businesses (Toren, 2014). Entrepreneurs can definitely benefit from crowdfunding programs if their ideas are viable, lucrative, and interesting. This paper examines the ideology and importance of crowdfunding from Adam Uzialko’s perspective following the incorporation of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) into the US constitution in 2012.
According to Uzialko (2015), the enactment ...

An entrepreneur faces months or days of trying to pitch an idea to investors. He or she attempts to inspire the investors to take interest in the business or idea. Finally, when the results of the startup procedure come out they are termed as term sheets that depict an investor(s) an interest in providing the entrepreneur with funds for the business. Cat Zakrzewski, the author of “DataTribe Launches To Back Entrepreneurs Leaving Government Roles” develops the art of making a business deal and the importance of term sheets in entrepreneurial finance. This essay examines the primary ideas presented ...

Article Review

Summary of modern organization theory
Modern organization theories are based on the fact that any organization is adaptive and dynamic to changes in the working environment. Customer sentiment, competition, technology, market diversity are some of the issues that coarse change in any organization. These modern theories are adaptive, multi-motivated, multi-disciplinary, dynamic, and descriptive, among other characteristics (FAO Corporate Document Repository 2013). Modern theories include systems approach theory, contingency or situational approach, and socio-technical approach theory.

Systems approach theory

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby among others founded the theory from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. it view an organization ...

The Issue Investigated

The “Dogs of the Dow” investment strategy promises investors abnormally high returns in the top yielding stocks from DJIA (Dow Jones industrial averages). The article investigates the Dow of Dogs myth which was propagated analyst John Slatter in an article titled study of industrial average in August. Since its inception, the myth became quite popular. The popularity of the myth is measurable by the not only sale of its publications but also by the investment trust and mutual funds tied on the basis of its investment philosophy. The analysis in this article shows that there is no evidence to ...

Article 1: Marketing to Teenagers: The influence of Color, Ethnicity and Gender

Summary
The teenage market is an important customer segment in the US as well as global market. Teenagers usually don't have any financial responsibility on their shoulder and that gives them a significant buying power. Most of the teenagers spend their money on clothes, jewelry, food, entertainment and beauty products. Teenagers are usually more tech savvy than the previous generations and spend a considerable amount of time on the internet, video games, phones, television and social networking sites. They accrue money for spending by getting paid for jobs and receiving allowances and monetary gifts. Brand loyalty is very important for ...

Path – goal theory is a leadership theory that specifies leadership style whose main aim is to achieve set goals through enhancing working environment for employees. It seeks to motivate, satisfy and empower employees so as to increase their productivity in the firm. Leader – member exchange theory is a leadership theory that focuses on the relationship between managers and their employees. It suggests that the relationships between managers and their employees are classified into three stages. These are role taking, role making, and routinization. Transformational leadership is a type of leadership style whereby managers work with their subordinates to come ...

Japanese company Toyota Motor Corporation recalled 6.4 million vehicles worldwide in efforts for quality control. It is according to an article from the Wall Street Journal by Hiroyuki Kachi. Twenty seven models were recalled in this big blow to the company’s quality control. This event happened after it was discovered that there were defects in some of the Toyota Models. The defects include problems with the steering wheel, air bags, peddlers, and the engine starters (Kachi). Two vehicles in Japan caught fire due to defects on the airbags. The business strategy of the company to report, and recall ...

Executive Summary

Company A and company B have very similar as well as very different financial statements. Both the companies are showing positive sales growth. While company A seems to be growing at a very high pace, company B is growing at a steady but slow pace. However, even upon growing at a higher pace company A’s profit has declined due to not being able to manage the input cost for production appropriately (cost of goods sold). On the other hand company B is also feeling the impact of the increasing input cost but it has managed it better than Company A and ...

An article by Dawson on the Wall Street Journal indicates that North Dakota has been a major source of oil over the past years. Statistics put its production at 1.2 million oil barrels a day. However, lack of proper infrastructure and the need to drill deeper in these areas have made it costly. Conversely, the prices have dropped to $50 a barrel, and the owners have considered selling the fields. The wells have been idle for some years and have been considered by new investors as a fortune. The fields are on hold for prices to balance in the ...

Article Reviews

The newly developed SASB allowed companies to take into consideration external events (Eccles, 2016) that cannot be controlled such as the effects of climate change. The reason for the accounting standard addition is that governments cannot ignore the effects on industrial markets and their investors (Eccles, 2016). The value of accounting standards is that it allows individuals, companies, and governments to generate wealth since it allows financial performance comparisons (Eccles, 2016). The problem is that there was no previous standard developed for nonfinancial performances (Eccles, 2016) especially on environmental and social activities.

Areas of Agreement

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Introduction

The study relates to the consumer purchases in the market where some items are disorganized and has a limited quantity. The aim of the study is to identify the effect of such condition on the purchasing decision of the consumer. A consumer can have positive, negative, or neutral perception regarding the product that is messed and it varies from case to case. The research is conducted to collect information from literature and determine the factors that relate to the purchase of familiar branded products or others. The study provides a clear view of the effects of these situations ...

Summary

Germany Chancellor Merkel is facing a tough economic decision of trying to balance the interest of her country and that of European countries facing an economic crisis. Influential leaders across the world like the Pope are calling on the powerful to help the weak in an attempt to convince Merkel to soften her position and lend more money to countries like Cyprus. The leaders of countries facing crisis think Merkel need to support them and show solidarity with them in their difficult economic situation (MARCUS, 1).
Germany is proposing a variety of austerity policies that cannot gain any political ...

and Hurdle Rates in Nordic firms
This article discussed the study conducted about the factors that affected the choice of capital budgeting methods among five Nordic countries. It was noted that the Net Present Value method has been considered as the best option in the evaluation of investment decisions. Some of the complexities associated with the use of NPV in terms of its application in capital budgeting and the setting of discount rates lead to this study, which concentrated on the administration of the survey from firms located in Nordic countries.
The research revealed that the Discounted Cash Flow ...

Effect of Monetary Policy of Canadian Economy

The monetary report of January 2016 brings to light the performance of the global economy and the effect to the Canadian economy. Shifting terms of trade dominated the economic outlook. While major central banks in the world continue expanding their monetary stimulus, the U.S Federal Reserve started withdrawing it. This shows an improvement of the labor market hence inflation rates will reach the two percent target. The global economy forecasts a decline in oil prices which over time would boost global activities in the economy. The report also showed that China is transitioning into sustainable growth.
Global low economic ...

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The article investigates human capital and its correlation with investing and financial planning. Successful asset allocation highlights a stock/bond question that human capital is associated with bonds and stocks, and that a holistic view of assets is needed when planning. In this regard, a stable job relates to characteristics of a bond, but a volatile and unpredictable area of work stresses those of a stock. Our life stage indicates different trends in terms of both human and financial capital. The young have a lot of human capital, but not much financial capital. ...

Executive summary

This article discusses the topic are there issues with revenue –neutral carbon tax as reported on the wall street journal of April 17th 2013.with increased campaign on the need for reduction on emissions that have caused an increase in the quantity of green house gases that have led to dramatic climatic changes.
According to the Washington post of 25th April 2013, it’s depicted that, “For years it’s been obvious in policy-wonk circles that a carbon tax is a great idea.”
Many nations especially the developed ones like those in Europe have in America have opposed this move ...

Article 1

Business strategies can be of many natures including mergers and acquisition. Acquisitions assist in attaining total control of the market and cost of production which is the main objective of Delta Air Lines. The management decided to acquire the Trainer refinery located in Philadelphia. This would cost the company about $ 150 million as initial cost and $ 100 million to make an overhaul of the refinery thus increasing the fuel extracted. This cost would be incomparable to the benefit acquired, which would be reduced cost of the fuel prices spent by the company. The escalating cost of fuel has driven ...

I agree with by Paul Krugman that inflation is till considerably low. Therefore, Fed should worry more about unemployment than inflation. The level of inflation is relatively low than 2% therefore, Fed should concentrate on reducing unemployment. The economy is currently recovering and the aggregate demand is also increasing so Fed should continue to apply expansionary economic policies to help the economy to fully recover. This should be the way to go despite Phillips curve argument that unemployment decreases then inflation increases because little increase in inflation may be less harmful if it creates more employment opportunities by encouraging ...

2007 Economic Crisis Review

Abstract

This article is an academic review of the economic crisis that struck in 2007 whereby the world economy experienced deep and long prolonged recession with the crisis being considered as the worst to be experienced since the Great Depression . This article largely lies its basis on the U.S experience during that period with the effects, which resulted from the crisis in the overseas markets outlined. Also, the article brings an understanding of some of the conceptual underpinnings of the issues lying at the heart of the economic crisis. The underlying causes of the economic crisis ...

The article selected is on investment risks and returns, and it is relevant to the current discussion topic in this entrepreneurship class. There have been several questions on how risks are established together with the expected returns for potential investors in any business. The poor performance of firms in the stock markets makes it vital for entrepreneurs to analyze the risks and returns when screening for business opportunities. I have learnt from the article that one way to do this is by comparing the risks and benefits associated with buying stock in a company to purchasing a publically traded ...

Article Identification

The video under evaluation is drawn from the Benevon firm. The CEO, Terry Axelrod teaches nonprofit organizations how to obtain sustainable funds.
Benevon (2012). Creating Sustainable Funding for Your Nonprofit 55-Minute Recorded Seminar. Retrieved April 30, 2016 from http://www.benevon.com/fundraising-training- video.

Summary

Terry coaches and trains non-profit firms on the use of the Benevon Model. The paradigm is an initiative that is mission-based to enable the development of relations and engagement with donors. When molded to serve the customized interests of every NGO, the Benevon structure creates passionate investors who are dedicated to the long-term economic stability of the NGO. The ...

Article Analysis: World Poverty

Introduction
In 2015, the United Nations is working with the World Bank’s ambitious plan to end extreme global poverty by the year 2030. This means that for the first time, every person in the world would afford common items and food to make their life easier. Many experts would debate on the main cause of poverty as it could be the changing trends in a certain country’s economy. Other factors would also include the lack of education, overpopulation, the presence of epidemic diseases like AIDS and malaria and even environmental problems like drought. Extreme weather can cause ...

In 2015, American workers began finding new jobs at a time when the United States economy was supposed to take off. However, Americans were not able to find employers who were willing to contribute to meaningful pay increases. Data suggested that unemployment was at a seven year low and the economy was at a steady pace when it came to job growth. This data was released at the same time the Federal Reserve was considering a raising interest rates. This would be the first time in almost a decade the Federal Reserve considered making such a decision. In the ...

Article Review of Hedge Clipping

Article Review of Hedge Clipping
The major issue that is being investigated in this article is about risk management as a result of clipping the hedge. Moreover, the article has presented several advantages of hedge funds over other financial institutions such as banks and brokerage companies. That is hedge funds are not regulated by the SEC, and this provides them with a considerable latitude for investing the money of their customers. This article applies the financial data between the years 1996 to 2003 because from the article; it is clear that Malkiel and Atanu examined the data between 1996 ...

Introduction

The share has a nominal value and the market price. Nominal shares (nominal value) is a sum of money designated for the shares and reflects the share of the authorized capital of the company attributable to one share. The nominal value of a share is a particle of the authorized capital of the company, and it is carried out in proportion to the payment of dividends (Brockman, Mossman and Olson, 1997). Yet, with this amount of authorized capital amount corresponding to its shares may vary depending on the size of the nominal value of one share. If the value ...

Section One

Wyandotte County is situated in the US and is bordered by Johnson on the shores of river Missouri. The county has an average of 156 miles and is one of the smallest counties in the city, and this reason has forced residents to work or reside in the neighboring areas. As indicated by the county's population statistics, it is evident that the county had a steady growth but later declined during the ‘80's and ‘90's. However, it is worth noting that the decline in population growth negatively affected the economy of the county, but its revival in early 2000 ...