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2009.
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Under existing SEC disclosure requirements, a public corporation is required to fully and fairly disclose facts about its operations that are "material" to a shareholder's investment decision. But despite the growing evidence of climate change's broad range of impacts, 76.3% of annual reports filed in 2008 by S&P 500 corporations failed to even mention climate change. The true test of proper climate risk disclosure will be its quality, assessed using...
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Invest in your financial future with this valuable, popular, and easy-to-use guide This latest edition is infused with new and updated material to help you ramp up your portfolio today! This includes time-tested advice, updates to investing recommendations, and strategies that reflect changing market conditions. Investing may be an intimidating prospect, but this resource will serve as your primer on all aspects of the topic, including how to develop...
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Issue brief volume 18-09
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In lieu of issuing bonds, or using another form of long-term debt, the state often uses a form of lease-purchase agreement called certificates of participation (COPs) to finance the construction of its new facilities. A certificate refers to an investor's proportionate interest in the state's lease payments. COPs give the state the flexibility to build capital facilities even when funds are not available to pay for projects on a pay-as-you-go basis....
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An informed investor is a better investor. If an investor knows of the various types of risk or fraud that may take place, that person can make better investment decisions. The bulletins and press releases offer valuable information to investors.
16) Boiler room
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2000.
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When a streetsmart young man is recruited into a hot, new, aggressive stock brokerage, it seems like a dream come through. But the dream goes very sour very quickly.
17) Black market
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Wall Street is to be blown up by an elite band of terrorist. Time has run out-the Green Band has marked the Street for total destruction. Who are these Jackal-like terrorists? Why are they holding the world's financial heart hostage? - taken from cover
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2018.
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"The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with...
19) The Last Trial
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Kindle County novels volume 11
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"At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will provide the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives,...
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