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Food Companies' Bonds Could Get Junkier
It's too early to call it a "food recession" – too many companies are still doing too well for that – but Standard & Poor's move to put several of food producers on "CreditWatch negative" isn't a good sign. The credit-ratings agency on Thursday said downgrades could...
Food Companies' Bonds Could Get Junkier
It's too early to call it a "food recession" – too many companies are still doing too well for that – but Standard & Poor's move to put several food producers on "CreditWatch negative" isn't a good sign. The credit-ratings agency on Thursday said downgrades could be...
Dole, in Debt Trouble, Sells Land but Holds Line on Prices
Here's how scary things are at Dole Food: it's relying on the real estate market to get it out of trouble. To avoid defaulting on $350 million worth of bonds, the company is planning to sell land in Hawaii and California. Dole, the world's largest purveyor of...
How to Gather Competitive Research
To formulate an effective corporate strategy, it's essential to understand two basic questions: What is your company doing, and what are your competitors doing? Establish the Strategic Problem Goal: Define your question before you begin the search for answers. Developing a competitive strategy...
Just Concentrate: Does Minding Fewer Stocks Add More Oomph to a Portfolio?
For the past 20 years, students of stock-market investing have worshipped at the twin altars of modern-portfolio theory and efficient-market theory. The first holds that the more diversified a portfolio, the less the risk from each of its components. The latter posits that active money managers have no more stockpicking...
S&P Indexed Annuities
In the industry's never ending quest to sell more and more products, one came up with the equity-indexed annuity. Instead of a yield based on bonds, the return is on normally the movement of the monthly Average S&P with certain caps and floors. But there are several methods that the...
S&P Weighs In On Operating Earnings
The operating earnings of companies depends on what their management decides to throw in and leave out of its pro forma earnings results. However, the practice has led to widespread criticism, and a call for a standard way for companies to report their results. Thus, experts suggest that there is...
A Multi-Perspective Assessment of Implied Volatility Using S&P 100 and NASDAQ Index Options
This paper attempts to examine the implied volatility of index options. For the purpose of analysis, it uses the NASDAQ and S&P 100 index options from January 2, 1996 to November 30, 2001. It describes the behavior of the implied volatility of NASDAQ and S&P 100 index options between January...
General Criteria for S&P U.S. Index Membership
One of the most frequent questions one get at Standard & Poor’s is, “What are the criteria for being added to an S&P Index?” First and foremost, S&P Indices are not rules-based; all changes are fully discretionary and are determined by the Index Committee based upon public information. Companies may...
The Long-Run Behavior of the S&P Composite Price Index and Its Risk Premium
The equity risk premium has firmly established itself as one of the most formidable and elusive puzzles in finance theory. To deal with this, numerous explanations have been proposed, each trying to describe how it must be measured, let alone how it should behave. With no unified approach in sight,...
Interactive Data Completes Acquisition of S&P ComStock
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) today announced the closing of its acquisition of S&P ComStock, Inc., a real-time information service providing financial data from more than 180 stock exchanges worldwide. The addition of ComStock's real-time market datafeeds rounds out our ability to serve the mission-critical operations of the global financial...
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Bond rating agencies to keep eye on Md. slots referendum
Maryland continues to be one of the country's top-rated public bond issuers, but the rating agencies that grant that status are watching November's referendum on slot machine legalization as they look for continued financial stability. On Wednesday, Maryland will sell $415 million worth of general obligation bonds,...
SectorWatch.biz Issues MarketStats on Oil Field Services Companies CETG, HAL, WLL, MRO, and CLR
IRVINE, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- SectorWatch.biz announces the availability of MarketStats for Oil Field Services equities in the news and driving markets today. MarketStats offers a perspective on the aforementioned equities and the opportunity for investors to respond with articles and opinions on the subject and sector...
Hadera Paper Ltd. Contemplated Public Offering in Israel of Two New Series of Debentures
HADERA, Israel, July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hadera Paper Ltd. (formerly, American Israeli Paper Mills Ltd.) filed with the Israeli Securities Authority a report with respect to a contemplated public offering in Israel pursuant to the shelf prospectus published by the company in Israel on May 26, 2008 of...
MBIA hurt by competition, subprime issues
Question: I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? -- V.R., via the Internet Answer: The world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds tied to subprime mortgages and derivatives. It...
It's wise to invest in Brazil's sizzling economy
Forget Brazil's hyperinflation of the 1990s and the risk of imminent default on debt earlier this decade. Foreign direct investment is pouring in to the country, and the stock market and currency have handsomely rewarded foreign investors. On April 30, Standard & Poor's bestowed an investment-grade rating on Brazil's foreign...
Bear overtakes S& P 500
NEW YORK -- In a fresh sign that the financial pain is spreading on Wall Street, the bear market that already has decimated blue-chip, technology and small stocks on Wednesday sank its claws into the USA's biggest companies. The Standard & Poor's 500 index, a good barometer of...
SEC slams credit-rating agencies over standards
The nation's largest credit-rating agencies failed to protect investors during the real estate boom because of sloppy business practices and inadequate staffing, federal regulators said in a report issued Tuesday. An investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, launched 10 months ago because of the subprime mortgage meltdown,...
SEC finds fault in credit raters
WASHINGTON -- The three main credit-rating agencies failed to rein in conflicts of interest in giving high ratings to risky securities backed by subprime mortgages, federal regulators said Tuesday. The results of the year-long review by the Securities and Exchange Commission illuminate the role of Wall Street's...
Stay on track
A building block of Topeka's past is providing a rare bright spot in today's worrisome economy. Railroads have long been a key part of the city's economic landscape, so it's been nice to see signs that the rail industry is chugging along quite nicely these days. ...
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