Obama Meeting With Yatsenyuk Raises Stakes in Ukraine
March 12th, 2014
Barack Obama’s meeting with Ukraine’s prime minister today raises the stakes in his attempt to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions in Crimea and preempt its spread to other countries in the region. The invitation to Prime Minister Arseniy ...
Inmates running the asylum
March 10th, 2014
IT WAS always an awkward coincidence that the cousin of Steve DiCarmine, a former executive at the collapsed law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf , was “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano, who ran the Bonnano crime family and is now serving a ...
Dividend Policy Ratios
March 6th, 2014
Dividend policy ratios provide insight into the dividend policy of the firm and the prospects for future growth. Dividend policy ratios measure how much a company pays out in dividends relative to its earnings and market value of its ...
Profitability Ratios
March 6th, 2014
How well is the business performing over a specific period, will the firm have the financial resources to continue serving its constituents tomorrow as well as today? Profitability ratios offer several different measures of the success of the firm ...
Hedge Funds
March 6th, 2014
A Hedge fund, usually used by wealthy individuals and institutions, is allowed to use aggressive strategies that are unavailable to mutual funds, including short selling, leverage, swaps, arbitrage, and derivatives. Hedge funds are exempt from many of the rules ...
