GM IPOs Two Years After Receiving Bailout After 2 years of receiving the $49.5 billion bailout by the U.S Government to avoid bankruptcy, General Motors (GM) is once again publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Over the past couple of years GM saw how its market share stumbled while foreign competitors like […]
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Weekly Market Wrap Up, November 8-12, 2010
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Asset Purchase Plan The Federal Reserve is planning to purchase more Treasury bonds and has incited critics over inevitable high inflation as well as financial turmoil. The Fed’s $600 billion program might give U.S. exporters an edge but it may also endanger global economic growth. Is the Fed’s plan a […]
Weekly Market Wrap Up, October 25–29, 2010
Bernanke Asset Purchases Risk Unleashing 1970s Inflation Genie Fed Gears Up for Stimulus For the second time since he became chairman in 2006, Ben S. Bernanke is leading the Federal Reserve into uncharted monetary territory. The Federal Reserve is close to embarking on another round of monetary stimulus next week, against the backdrop of a […]
Chapman Graduate School recognized again as one of the best business schools by The Princeton Review.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Graduate School of Business at Florida International University (FIU) is ranked in a publication of The Princeton Review: Best 300 Business Schools: 2011 Edition. “For this edition, we’ve collected the opinions of more than 19,000 students at the best AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools […]
Weekly Market Wrap Up, October 18–22, 2010
New York Fed in Support of Mortgage Buybacks Some of the nation’s leading banks have come under fire recently on two fronts related to misreporting on foreclosures and poor underwriting standards for mortgages. Bank of America, the largest US bank by assets, has been in the limelight recently because of a class action lawsuit by […]
Peruvian graduate students explore international business at FIU.
They came from the first academic institution in the Spanish-speaking world to specialize in business administration for graduate students. Twenty-four graduate business students from Peru’s Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados (ESAN), a partner in the Chapman Graduate School’s Dual Degree network, participated in an “Introduction to International Business” module at Florida International University […]
Research underway to develop medical passport for foster care kids.
Being a foster kid brings many struggles. Getting proper medical care shouldn’t be one of them. Two faculty members in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) are conducting research, including focus group sessions, for Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe, Inc., to develop a “medical passport” for each foster child in the area. […]
Capital Markets Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, October 11 – 15, 2010
Technology Sector Updates: Today, the technology sector saw some action with the Wall Street buzzing notions and speculations on a possible buyout bid for Yahoo involving AOL and some private-equity firms which sent Yahoo’s stock price rocketing up as much as 9.5% early today and with AOL going up 3.38% to $25.97. On Wednesday, The […]
Capital Markets Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, October 4 – 8, 2010
Geithner Calls for More Flexible Currency Regimes With US unemployment still hovering at ten year highs, congressional leaders and economists are pushing the debate further on pressuring the Chinese to appreciate their undervalued currency. Last week, the US House of Representatives passed the currency reform bill, a bill that would grant the Department of Commerce […]
Capital Markets Lab Weekly Market Wrap Up, September 27 – October 1, 2010
BHP Files Motion to Dismiss Potash Suit In response to BHP Billiton’s unrelenting takeover bid, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. filed a complaint for injunctive and other relief last week in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. According to the legal brief, “Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PCS) seeks to preliminarily and […]