The IMF projects a global growth rate of –3.0 percent in 2020, a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points from its January 2020 forecast. On the assumptions that the pandemic fades in the second half of 2020, allowing containment efforts to … Continue reading →
Over the past decade, private equity firms have invested heavily in retail. These firms generally acquire companies through leveraged buyouts with the goal of holding the company for a number of years, increasing its value and then selling it to … Continue reading →
Bitcoin, the number one cryptocurrency by market value is trading at around $9,852.22 – up nearly 160 percent from the March 12th low of $3,867, according to CoinDesk. About 85 percent (25.79 million) of the addresses holding the cryptocurrency are … Continue reading →
Treasury securities (also referred to as “Treasuries”) are debt obligations of the U.S. government. The federal government borrows by issuing Treasuries in the forms of bills, notes, bonds and inflation-protected securities (TIPS), depending on the maturity. These debt obligations are … Continue reading →
A material adverse event clause in a contract addresses the possibility of the occurrence of an unexpected change in circumstances (sometimes termed an “act of God”) that could significantly reduce the value of a company or cause a decline in … Continue reading →
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) abolished three nonresidential real property categories (qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property and qualified retail improvement property) and replaced these categories with a broader category known as qualified improvement property … Continue reading →
Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 allows an investor to defer the capital gains tax from the sale of real estate when similar parcels are swapped and no gain or loss is realized. The investor must identify the replacement property(ies) (using … Continue reading →
A stock buyback occurs when a company buys back its shares in the open market. The move causes the repurchased shares to be absorbed by the company thus reducing the number of shares that trade publicly and increasing the relative … Continue reading →
Foreign institutional investors were net buyers of Chinese commercial real estate, totaling $2.7 billion in Q1–2019, according to The Wall Street Journal (citing data from Real Capital Analytics). This is a reversal from most of the period between 2013 to … Continue reading →
On July 1, the DC government announced that the development team consisting of Monument Realty, Morningstar Community Development, The May Firm, and Community Housing Partners was selected out of six proposals for the development of 2 Patterson NE – a … Continue reading →