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Money and Capital Markets: Financial Institutions and Instruments in a Global Marketplace, 8/e

Peter Rose, Texas A & M University

Corporate Stock

Standard & Poor's Questions

Chapter 22 in Money and Capital Markets: Corporate Stock

Question 1

Which industries listed on S&P’s Market Insight are likely to have the lowest ratios of equity capital (including common and preferred stock outstanding) to assets? Why is this so?

Question 2

Which security dealer/brokerage firm is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world? How do you know? Is this company more or less profitable than its industry’s average profit performance? What range of services does it offer?

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