(Bloomberg) -- Rumors of leverage's death have been greatly exaggerated. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis an abundance of leverage — borrowed money used to amplify returns — was ...

Financial leverage uses borrowed money to boost potential returns but increases risk. Key ratios like debt-to-equity indicate if a company may be over-leveraged. Effective leverage management ...

Britain's banks have slammed plans to impose new capital rules for lenders and said the "leverage ratio" proposals are far too complex and could encourage banks to take more risks. "There is a ...

Synthetic leverage refers to debt created by the use of derivatives or other complex financial instruments that frequently does not show up on balance sheets.

I haven’t written too much yet about Chris Dodd’s financial reform bill. There are two reasons for this. First, healthcare has been front and center for the past week and I just didn’t want ...

The financial relationship includes contribution margin analysis, break-even analysis and operational leverage. Financial statements provide the data to perform cost-volume-profit analysis.

Although the degrees of operating and financial leverage are discussed in most finance textbooks, they are not linked explicitly to systematic risk and valuation. This paper develops a model that ...

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