Analysts, covering both credit and equity securities, have long been under pressure to be positive.
Authorized by legislation if required, the Treasury would create two new kinds of equity securities.
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The Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index measures the performance of all U.S. equity securities with readily available price data.
The average daily volume of equity securities traded in the U.S. stock markets has consistently climbed over the past few years.
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Equity securities such as warrants, preferred stock, common stock and other equity interests, will principally be made in conjunction with debt investments.
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Certainly, its dominance of trading in equity securities is threatened by electronics.
According to WisdomTree's registration statement, it will introduce six funds that invest in dividend-paying U.S. equity securities and 14 that invest in dividend-paying non-U.S. equity securities.
The majority of these investments are in fixed income securities like government and corporate bonds and the remainder in equity securities, mortgage loans, policy loans and other investment securities.
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In these deals NIR would provide cash to a publicly-traded company in exchange for a convertible debenture that entitled NIR to receive interest and repayment in the form of cash or discounted equity securities.
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With long-term investment horizons, life insurance companies in developed economies are important investors in the stock market, as well as in the private placement markets for debt and equity securities issued by small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Despite shedding its insurance underwriting and asset management units in the last year or so, Citigroup continues to operate in a stunning variety of businesses, from subprime mortgage lending and branch banking to investment banking, private equity and securities servicing.
When he turned 80, he sold it to private-equity firm American Securities Capital Partners.
Awad, managing director of Zephyr Management, a global private equity and marketable securities outfit based in New York and operates offices in the U.K., India, and Africa.
JPMorgan is eagerly hiring commodity and energy traders, and mortgage-backed securities and equity derivatives specialists.
Michael Pachter, Managing Director of Equity Research at Wedbush Securities, thinks he knows why.
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Take Bank of America's Minimum Return Eagles (the name, predictably, is a tortured acronym--Equity Appreciation Growth LinkEd Securities).
"People are more nervous this week than most, " said Rick Fier, director of equity trading at Conifer Securities.
He is currently senior vice president of equity research at Rochdale Securities, where he analyzes banking and brokerage industries.
Mutual and pension funds are making direct equity investments, bypassing securities firms.
"People got caught off guard a little yesterday, but I'm not sensing panic anywhere, " said Rick Fier, director of equity trading at Conifer Securities.
Steven Vinik, former head of equity sales for Nomura Securities in Hong Kong, says the markets have been so lousy lately that many traders have simply withdrawn.
Take Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people )'s Minimum Return Eagles (the name, predictably, is a tortured acronym--Equity Appreciation Growth LinkEd Securities).
"This morning's economic number didn't help at all, but markets were already lower on the back of Cyprus news, " said Rick Fier, director of equity trading at Conifer Securities.
"I expect everybody will jump on the bandwagon now, " said Richard Bove, equity analyst at Rochdale Securities, who thinks that the cost to Goldman of defending lawsuits could be enormously expensive over the next few years.
In other words, when investment banks had ample capital prior to the financial crisis in 2008, part of their role was to function as a facilitator of fixed income and equity markets, buying securities with their own capital as prices fell and selling securities with their own capital as prices rose.
Investors in general have a much greater percentage of equity exposure invested in foreign securities than 10 or 20 years ago.
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Mark Meland, a lawyer representing the bondholders, said the deal has led to a 20.0% drop in the value of the debt securities, while equity investors have been offered a premium.
Mark Meland, a lawyer representing the bondholders, said in May the deal had led to a 20.0% drop in the value of the debt securities, while equity investors had been offered a premium.
Seth Setrakian, co-head of U.S. equity trading at First New York Securities, thinks a reversal is coming in the short-term.
We believe the managers of equity based portals should have the securities and investing sophistication needed to help issuers sell securities.
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