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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

All-Stock Deals Plummet In Cheap-Debt Environment

It is a dramatic drop compared not just to the 1990s, when stock-for-stock deals accounted for over half of all mergers, but also to 2016, when the average equaled 23.9% by dollar value.

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.

News

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.