Features
GAAP Gets A Bad Rap
There’s a growing push to replaceGenerally Accepted Accounting Principles with an accounting system that better reflects companies’ finances.
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Trump’s First Year | An Economic Evaluation
A year into President Trump’s term, America’s political life has changed beyond recognition. But what has his administration meant for companies?
News
A Lightbulb Moment For GE
GE stock has lost more than 40% of its value since 2000, when Flannery’s predecessor, Jeffrey Immelt, was appointed.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
A Non-Economist To Lead The US Central Bank
Jerome Powellis President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Janet Yellen as chair of the US central bank. He willstart his tenure inFebruary 2018.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CFIUS Reform Shakes Foreign Buyers in America
The proposal includes review of additional categories of transactions, such as nonpassive investments in critical technologies or infrastructure companies.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Fixed Income: Supply Shock Could Rattle Treasury Market
US treasury bond yields could rise sharply in 2018, as central-bank liquidity begins to recede and heavy new supply hits the market.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
European M&A Hunters Take Aim At US
European companies have spent almost $176 billionon US takeovers during 2017.
News
Nobel Winner’s Work Can Improve CFO Decisions
A professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Richard Thaler’s advances in behavioral economics merited a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in October.
Features
Central Bankers Report Card 2017 | Ratings For Americas
These are the ratings for central bank governors for the Americas region in 2017.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Goldman Sachs Embraces Online Consumer Lending
Ever since it became a bank holding company in 2008 to stay afloat in the financial crisis, the bank was urged by US Federal Reserve to rely more on ‘sticky’ consumer deposits to lower its risk profile.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
M&A | DowDuPont Bows To Pressure From Activist Investors
The company haschanged plans to split into three separate companies following the merger between Dow Chemicals and DuPont.
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Amazon Incites HQ2 Bidding War
The firm saysthe newheadquarter would beas big as the existingoffices inSeattle and will come with$5 billion in investment promisingjobs for 50,000 employees.