US benchmark equity indexes were mostly higher ahead of Wednesday's close after official data showed consumer inflation rose in line with Wall Street's expectations in October. The Dow Jones ...

The logic behind this is an insolvent company cannot pay its debts or improve its equity standing. However, sometimes a ...

This led to some dollar weakness and improved sentiment toward EM countries, whose central banks now face lower market resistance to cutting interest rates. Currencies and equity markets rallied ...

Compared to their long-only counterparts, long-short strategies are designed to have lower sensitivity to equity market movements, as measured by beta, volatility and drawdowns. When included as part ...

Market value of equity is calculated by multiplying stock price by outstanding shares. Book value, derived from balance sheet equity, offers a less volatile valuation. Market values may include ...

Cost of equity = Beta of investment x (Expected market rate of return-Risk-free rate of return) + Risk-free rate of return The beta in this equation is a measure of how much on average a stock's ...

The Australian equity market continues to hit new highs, aided by a powerful global equity upswing and the pivotal US market continuing to scale fresh heights. Almost all global equity markets have ...

He added that "while we still believe Treasury securities will be the safe-haven choice in the case of a broad macro equity-market selloff, they may not be the best defensive option for garden ...

A slowdown in mergers and acquisitions and in exit activity is contributing to the private equity secondary market, a growing option for investors in the alternatives space. More private equity ...

You will often see ‘stocks of a feather’ sitting together in the portfolio of an investor or fund manager who has a strong leaning to a particular type of investment. For example, a fund manager who ...

The equity market extended its losses on Thursday as the market capitalization dropped by N127 billion, or 0.21 per cent, from N59.559 trillion to close at N59.432 trillion. Similarly, the All ...

The Dow set its most record closes in a single year in 2017, when it posted 71 new all-time highs, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Thursday's selloff in the Treasury market sent the yield on ...