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Abstract In my research you will find that I outlined the cause and effect of the mortgage crisis. I also speak on the falling housing prices due to the mortgage crisis and the domino effect that will be created on and for the economy. I will also speak on the foreclosure rates caused by sub-prime loans and no fall back plan to help in the case of the mortgagor defaults. The Mortgage Crisis Thesis Statement: The mortgage crisis that has caused house prices

International Events Weigh Increasingly on the Fed The minutes to the 28-29 July Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting offered virtually zero fresh information about policy conduct. Market events have subsequently overtaken investors’ attention. In fairness, however, there was a reference to overseas events and their potential to suppress inflation. Recent currency movements have suggested that the race to the bottom has intensified. Furthermore, US financial conditions, although still very

California in 1997. Between 1998-2000, Netflix launched its online rentals, sales, subscription service, and a system of recommendations that can predict a consumer’s choice (Netflix). In May 2002, Netflix announced its first public offering led by Merrill Lynch. They offered over 5 million shares of common stock for $15 per share. Netflix introduced an online streaming service in 2007. At the time of its introduction, the streaming service had a catalog of 1,000 movies and TV shows (Helft, 2007). From

Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) have also been blamed for their role in promoting risk taking behaviour. The Basel II Accord (2004) also gave CRAs a major role to play in financial markets. The complexity of MBSs and CDOs increased overtime, making it difficult for the agencies to assess their risk accurately. They underestimated the complexity of these mortgages and were slow in downgrading the ratings during bad times, so that their ratings misled the market participants. Overtime, various institutions

14 banks and brokerage firms invested $3.5 billion in LTCM to prevent its imminent collapse. Most of the major banks took part, including Federal Reserve Bank, Bear Stearns, Salomon Smith Barney, J.P. Morgan, Chase Manhattan, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. (Stephanie) When the financial markets crisis that had started in Southeast Asia intensified in the

Global Luxury Brands’ Strategies to Fight Recession Global luxury brands’ strategies to Fight recession Choi Soon-hwa Luxury brands are actively responding to the latest economic downturn, said to be the worst since the Great Depression, racking their brains to escape the grips of the falling luxury goods market. Indeed, the hit to sales has been particularly bad as industrialized nations, traditionally the main luxury good markets, have suffered greatly. With luxury goods consumers having

INTRODUCTIONS The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in the threat of total collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of small and big banks by national governments, and downturns in stock markets around the world. In United States, the housing market also suffered, resulting in evictions, foreclosures and prolonged unemployment. The crisis played a significant role in

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Introduction Insider trading is defined as ‘the illegal practice of trading on the stock exchange to one 's own advantage through having access to confidential information’. Insider trading includes informing others when you have any sort of information involving market trades that has not been made available to the public, this is something that is unfair to other investors. It involves the deliberate exploitation of sensitive price information, obtained through or by privileged relationships;

CAPM and Factor Models Part I: CAPM (Mandatory for all groups) 1. Request a password for WRDS (Wharton Research Data Service) database. 2. In WRDS, find Compustat database. There you can find information on the book value of equity. Also, find information on the market value of equity and market capitalization. 3. Based on the above information, select two companies that you will work with throughout this project. The first company should be a large cap stock with high book to market (BM)