what did the lehman brothers do wrong?
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Lehman Brothers had become heavily involved in the mortgage market, owning the subprime mortgage seller BNC Mortgage. ... As Lehman had held onto, or could not sell, so many risky low-rated mortgages, the subprime mortgage crash affected the bank badly and, in the first half of 2008, it lost of 73% of its value.
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Central Banks Buying Stocks Have Rigged US Stock Market Beyond Recovery. Central banks buying stocks are effectively nationalizing US corporations just to maintain the illusion that their “recovery” plan is working because they have become the banks that are too big to fail.
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The safety of money invested in NCDs is subject to the ratings and the nature of the debentures. Relying entirely on ratings is not suggested as it has been seen in the past that even highly rated issues have defaulted in repayment of funds. It's not the company that issues the NCD that gets rated but the issue itself.
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Cpx closed for good. No surprise here. Known this was coming for over a year. He tried to give them a price tag too high for them to bother..but after years of wanting that land all the parties came together and met his ridiculous price.
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But, Nokia did a blunder by being very much myopic and complacent about its achievements and didn't envision the competition, radical innovations and high end technology coming its way, which certainly had potential to dethrone it of its place. This was one of the major reasons Nokia lost its market share.
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Key points: The engineering firm ran into trouble after an aggressive move into solar. A total of $630 million is owed to creditors, subcontractors and suppliers. The collapse came after a $100m injection of funds just three months ago.
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Early the next morning, Lehman Brothers announced its bankruptcy filing. Lehman soon sold its investment banking and capital markets operations to Barclays for $250 million.
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AIG: The Biggest Bailout in History Just after letting Lehman Brothers fail, the government stepped in when it became clear that American International Group would fail due to its heavy investments in credit default swaps – and potentially bring down the entire financial system.
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officially shut down and sold all of its assets to a New York investment firm named SQN Venture Partners, according to the Robot Report. There are likely a myriad of reasons Jibo went south so quickly. The company may have spent too much money too fast, or Jibo's $900 remained too high to attract any sales.
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When the pizza chain Sbarro filed for bankruptcy in April, analysts speculated on the cause of the restaurant's problems. Industry expert Blair Chancey cited a “perfect storm” of adverse conditions—rising commodity prices, too-rapid growth, increased competition, and a decline in mall traffic.
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1 – Bad Bankroll Management One of the most common reasons why successful poker players go broke involves poor bankroll management. A good player not only needs the skills to win but also has to properly manage their funds. Pros need a long-term mindset when handling their money.
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Due to the structure of markets, it may be impossible for them to be perfect. Reasons for market failure include: positive and negative externalities, environmental concerns, lack of public goods, underprovision of merit goods, overprovision of demerit goods, and abuse of monopoly power.
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["Through 'Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC)', 2016 banks are either reviving the companies or liquidating them to solve NPAs issue.", 'The immediate solution is to sell Non performing assets. ... ', 'Among all defaulters, the top 20 companies created nearly Rs.']
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['Unrealistic Financial Projections. ... ', 'Not Defining the Target Audience. ... ', 'Over-Hype. ... ', 'Bad Research. ... ', 'No Focus on your Competition. ... ', 'Hiding Your Weaknesses. ... ', 'Not Knowing your Distribution Channels. ... ', 'Including Too Much Information.']
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Leveraged and inverse exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been heavily criticized for exacerbating volatility in financial markets because it is thought that they mechanically rebalance their portfolios in the same direction as contemporaneous returns.
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["It's customer sentiment, not the money they spend that makes customers stick around.", "People don't know what they want until you show it to them.", 'We built [the Mac] for ourselves. ... ', 'Many established, successful market leaders failed simply because they gave customers more of what they asked for.']
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The problem I have had is that Reckon has been categorising these payments as an asset (and therefore reports show a falsely positive financial position ... these payments aren't really an asset as they are to make provision for a future tax liability).