Dick Bove, a financial services analyst at Punk Ziegel & Company who has been bearish on other financial stocks, upgraded State Street stock to a buy, citing the company's strong results.
Those looking to sell are taking steps to appeal to buyers: trimming costs, diversifying revenue, upgrading financial statements and making the chief executive's role less essential.
In developing economies where human capital, like financial capital, is scarce, private equity investors can actively contribute to the success of a business by investing in and upgrading the financial, operational, and management capabilities of their portfolio companies.
The rational way to think about your purchases, says V. Seenu Srinivasan, a Stanford business school professor, is to replace a product when the benefits of a new version outweigh the costs — financial and psychological — of upgrading.
This investigation contributes to the literature on the evaluating financial feasibility of biogas upgrading to biomethane, heat generation, Combined Heat and Power (CHP), and alkaline with regeneration (AwR) by using the modified engineering economy method to establish biogas plants with a single production capacity and full commercialization.
But few have made financial commitments to upgrade unsafe factory buildings or to endorse tougher and deeper inspections.
So in 1996, HIP tapped its financial reserves to upgrade an antiquated computer system that was letting claims go unpaid.
The West continues to delay financial support to upgrade nuclear power plants in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (editorial, May 14).
The worry for Airbus is that Japanese carriers, once they are in a financial position to upgrade their fleets, will stick with Boeing.
They outline goals to upgrade financial services, promote trade and improve governance as well as measures to encourage foreign investment in 18 sectors in the country's tightly regulated service industry.
He argues that municipalities will need private water companies' financial muscle to upgrade community water infrastructure.
