Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Greece second bailout

Eurozone finance minister have agreed a second bailout for greece at talks held at Brussels. Under the agreement Greece will get loans of more than 130bn euros and have about of its 107bn debt written off.in return it must slush its debt from 160% to 120% of GDP within 2020, and accept a permanent EU economic monitoring mission.Private holders of Greek debt will take losses of 35.5% on the value of the bonds with the real loss as much as 70%.Also Greece will have to amend its constitution to give priority to debt repayment over the funding of government services.

Banking And Finance Home: Undrstanding the stock market

Banking And Finance Home: Undrstanding the stock market: Stock market is complex and hardly understood by many it is dynamic sector.before starting to invest at stock market you should look for eno...

Friday, 17 February 2012

Watered capital

Term used where successful company issues bonus shares and this tends to reduce the price and yield of all its shares though is does not affect the return to original shareholders

Double option

It gives the right to buy or sell at the prevailing price on the day options arranged over the following three months period.

A put option

It gives the right to sell at prevailing prices on the day the option is arranged over the following three months period.

A call option

It gives the right to buy a given share at the prevailing prices on the day the option is arranged at time over the following three months

Blue chips

This are high grade eguity shares i.e the ordinary shares of companies which have a good dividend records extending over many over years such shares are in high demand in the stock exchange.

Gilt edged securities

Thase are securities sold by the goverment, these are considered as absolutely save regarding to the payment of interest and refund of capital.

The governer must go! mps say

Kenya parlimentary committee that was investigating the reason behind down fall of the kenya shilling. They have recomended the kenya central bank boss to step down, or failer to do the president forms a commision.They blame the central bank governer for failing to act fast to save the shilling and for not doing enough to control banks who were manupulating the trading of the currency.Last year the shilling hit all time low, just in four months the currency lost almost 30%. but thanks to the late intervention by monitary committee who is chaired by the governer.the shilling as now regained its ground.