FASB Issues Proposal on Fair Value Measurements
By Staff WriterThe Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed statement, Fair Value Measurements, which would provide guidance for how to measure fair value. The proposed statement seeks to establish a framework that would improve the consistency, comparability and reliability of fair value measurements and would apply broadly to financial and...
November 10, 2004
Companies Create Electronic LTC SupermarketNU Online News Service, Nov. 10, 2004, 4:55 p.m. ESTStrateCision Inc., Needham, Mass., and Internet Pipeline Inc., Exton, Pa., will be joining to market ...
November 09, 2004
Political Futures Markets Make the Call in Presidential ElectionNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--By and large, electronic trading of political futures instruments accurately predicted the outcome of the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, bolstering the argument that these markets have an edge over polls. The winner-takes-all market run by the University of Iowa School of Business, one of several run by the...
November 09, 2004
Europe to Offer Good Hunting for Short SellersLONDON (HedgeWorld)--New accounting standards apply with the new year for 7,000 companies listed on Europe's stock markets, and one authority predicted that the new standards...
November 03, 2004
Piece Together Your Strategy To Reach Asian-AmericansPiece Together Your Strategy To Reach Asian-Americans The market has 5 major sub-segments in the U.S.By Jane ContiAny marketing strategy designed to reach the U.S. ...
November 02, 2004
Marsh: $230 Million Due Under Canceled AgreementsNU Online News Service, Nov. 2, 2004, 6:35 p.m. ESTThe brokerage arm of Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., New York, wants to collect its ...
November 02, 2004
CIGNA Adds 2 Niche Marketing EffortsNU Online News Service, Nov. 2, 2004, 2:07 p.m. ESTA national managed care company wants to do more to reach out to unions, government ...
November 02, 2004
Instinet and Tabb Group Chew Over Block Trading IssuesNEW YORK (HedgeWorld.com)--The impacts that decimalization, automation and lower brokerage commissions have made on the strategies of institutional investors, both traditional and alternative, provided grist for a panel discussion of institutional block trading at a breakfast moderated by Larry Tabb, founder and chief executive of The Tabb Group. The Oct....