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Capital Markets Information, Definition, News, Research, Articles, Journal - Accountability Central

Capital Markets – a formal definition -- 

The capital markets are the markets for long-term loans and equity capital. Companies and the government can raise funds for long-term investments via the capital markets. The capital markets include the stock market, the bond market, and the primary market. Securities trading on organized capital markets is monitored by the government; new issues are approved by authorities of financial supervision and monitored by participating banks. ...

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News & Updates


March 16, 2010 6 key points of the financial regulation legislation

Source:Washington Post

Dodd's second draft of financial reform legislation tracks closer to the bill that passed the House in December, eliminating several of the bold reforms he proposed last fall. But Republicans remain opposed, despite Dodd's...

March 16, 2010 Moody's warns nations to cut spending or risk AAA ratings

Source:Washington Post

The United States and other top world economies need to make potentially painful government spending cuts or risk losing the high-grade credit ratings that have kept borrowing affordable, the Moody's rating agency said Monday.

March 16, 2010 Dodd’s Financial Rules Bill Dilutes Obama Plan to Seek Support

Source:BusinessWeek

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd’s plan for the biggest Wall Street regulatory overhaul since the 1930s drops provisions he sought in November and dilutes others as he seeks bipartisan support.

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Research & Insights


March 15, 2010 The Last Temptation of Lehman Brothers

Source:RightPundits.com

Across the pond, in jolly old England, government investigators have determined that Lehman Brothers practiced an “irresponsible business model”. Oh really? They just figured that out, huh? Only took them 18 months! That’s what I...

March 15, 2010 Confident Investors, Wary Consumers

Source:Floyd Norris, NY Times

RARELY have stock prices risen as rapidly as they have over the past year. And not in recent decades has such a rise been viewed with as much suspicion as this one. The 66.6 percent gain in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index...

March 15, 2010 Dealing With Fraud by Denial

Source:Floyd Norris, NY Times

Years after Charles Ponzi was imprisoned for a fraud that cost victims millions of dollars in 1920, the state of Massachusetts determined it had recovered all the assets it could, and began to distribute them to victims, who...

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Commentary & Opinion


March 2, 2010 Companies Exposed to Water Risks Are Providing Investors With Too Little Data

Source:Social Funds.com

Global water scarcity has become a material business risk about which investors need information, to the extent that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) included a reference to the issue in its recent interpretive...

February 5, 2010 Nationwide Survey Finds: Americans See Environment as Alternative Fuel Source for Economic Growth

Source:BusinessWire

Americans are hopeful that the environment will help rescue the struggling economy, according to the results of the third-annual survey on environmental investing released here by Allianz Global Investors, a leader in the global...[more]

January 28, 2010 Restoring Trust and Rethinking Business Models Critical to Financial System Resilience

Source:World Economic Forum

Davos-Klosters, Switzerland – A World Economic Forum report on the future of the global financial system is part of the world’s business and financial leaders’ drive to “rethink, redesign, rebuild” the global financial...[more]

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-- The Broadway Bull – the 7,000 pound bronze statute stands in the middle of Broadway at Exchange Place (NYC) and is often touched by investment bankers and brokers on their to/from the office for good luck.  The bull is the work of NYC artist Arturo deModica, and originally stood at the NYSE (just a few blocks away). 

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Tim Quast is a fifteen-year Investor Relations veteran and founder and managing director of ModernIR.com, which parses and categorizes over a half-billion shares per week with its trading intelligence system, Equity Analysis. Click here for Tim's Columns.

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