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Home Sales Are Still Hot

According to Axios: Momentum is still building in the housing market. Pending home sales jumped 8.1% in August — far exceeding analyst expectations for around 1% growth. State of play: Pending sales, or signed contracts, had cooled during the prior two months, though remained above pre-pandemic levels.  The latest figures, out… Read More »Home Sales Are Still Hot

Tuesday Term – Capital Structure

Capital Structure – The composition of the invested capital of a business enterprise and the amount of debt and/or equity employed by a firm to fund its operations and finance its assets. It may also include information about stock, options, warrants and who owns or contributed them.

The World’s Richest Families

As outlined by Statista: Successful business enterprises are they key to the wealth of the world’s richest families. According to a ranking by Bloomberg, three American families top the ranking of the world’s wealthiest. The top 2 – The Waltons and the Mars family – deal in consumer goods, while the Kochs in… Read More »The World’s Richest Families

Personal Income Growth Rate

As outlined in https://www.bea.gov/news/2021/personal-income-state-2nd-quarter-2021: State personal income decreased 21.8 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter of 2021 after increasing 56.9 percent in the first quarter, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) (table 1). In the second quarter of 2021, the decrease… Read More »Personal Income Growth Rate