Preferred stock is a special class of ownership in an organization or company that aims at providing a higher claim on earnings and assets as compared to common stock. There is hardly any tax advantage to the issuing of preferred shares when compared to the other forms of finance such as shares or debt. Still, […]
EVERGRANDE: It’s China’s Second largest Real Estate Developers and has a Ballooning DEBT of over $300 BILLION. Currently it’s in NO POSITION to repay back Debt to its Bondholders or even complete it’s outstanding Projects. It’s a Fortune 500 Company. It’s Stock Price was down over 10% today and sending a fear wave across the […]
BUDGET 2021: SEEKING GROWTH. FM ON SPENDING MODE. India’s GDP fell from USD 2.86 Trillion in 2019 to USD 2.59 in 2020. This was due to the double whammy of Corona Lockdown and Lockdown led low revenue inflows. FM now had a real task at hand this time to bring the butchered economy back on track […]
China says its economy is back on track. It says it is the only country that will show some positive GDP growth this year. REALLY?? Scratch the surface: Why are Chinese corporate giants sinking? There has been a string of defaults from Chinese companies. And mind you these are not any teeny-weeny Chinese companies; these are […]
For New Year 2020 Global headline hovered around Coronavirus Epidemic &as of today, it has blown out more than one could guess. It threatens to rattle global economic growth. Last Friday was typically bad for US markets with the Dow & S&P500 Index recording one of their biggest single-day Fall, yesterday. Indian Markets were opened on […]
A lot of people have this misconception that a country’s currency is fully backed by the gold or Foreign currency it holds. But, this is simply not true – any country can print as much money as they want, and they don’t need to have any specified quantum of Assets to back their currency. In […]
WAS IT BLAND? NOT REALLY!! Hopes ran high after PM Modi addressed the nation, where he spoke of a Rs 20 trillion economic package, 10% of GDP, to combat the ravages of the virus, together with economic reforms. So far, the details of the Rs 20 trillion packages have not been overly exciting, but neither […]
A fancy term, probably most of us would have just ignored it assumingly that this is not for me. To put it simply, estate planning involves deciding how you want your assets to be distributed after you die (or become unable to make your own financial decisions). Estate planning can be complicated, so it’s best to […]