Big financial firms like Goldman, Sachs?
Not exact matches
And if it's a
big enough hole, you might go down really fast, just
like some of the
financial firm catastrophes of 2008.
The legislation also would eliminate the ability of regulators to shut down large
financial firms if they were on the verge of failing if they threaten the stability of the
financial system, a safety net that the
big banks would
like to keep in place.
Energy and industrial
firms are the
biggest sectors with nearly half the ETF weight, followed by
financials (though not the
big banks or insurers) and then consumer discretionary
firms like Tim Hortons, Shaw and Cogeco.
It's true that the activist investors on the Exxon vote likely include heavy hitters
like financial firms BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street (though the specific votes are not made public), which are the company's
biggest shareholders, owning more than 18 percent of the stock.
XLK includes all of the
big names associated with technology but also a few that seem
like misfits, such as
financial payment processers or telecom
firms.
We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and
financial firms unknown to the public —
like the fact that the
big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the
biggest Wall Street
firms.
At a forum on «Key Wisconsin Education Issues as
Big Decisions Approach» held Monday at the Marquette University Law School, Bob Borch and Scott Grella of PMA
Financial, a consulting
firm that works on school finance with districts around the state, provided the audience with an update on what the future of the «Fairly Normal» school district would look
like with a $ 150 per pupil aid cut.
One of the
biggest areas of contention is what the UK
financial market will look
like and how
firms here will be able to continue playing a leading role in the world.
Someday soon, crypto - enthusiasts think
big financial firms will buy and sell bitcoin
like any other asset: stocks, bonds, gold, whatever.