Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Discover how equity derivatives work, their uses in hedging and speculation, and see examples of these financial instruments like options and futures.

Stockholders' equity is the value of assets a company has remaining after eliminating all its liabilities. Companies with positive trending shareholder equity tend to be in good fiscal health. Those ...

As mayor of Victoria, I questioned the meaning of the word “equity” we see permeating government after attending GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity) training put on by the League of ...

The debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio is a financial metric that measures a company's financial leverage by comparing its total debt to shareholders' equity. It indicates how much debt a company uses to ...

Columbia City Council voted 5-1, with Fifth Ward councilperson Donald Waterman dissenting, to keep the city’s original definition of “equity” in its strategic plan instead of omitting diversity, ...

The Society for Human Resource Management dropped the “E” that stands for equity from its diversity, equity and inclusion policy platform to “hyperfocus on the things that people understand” rather ...

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker: Managing for Business Efficiency, HBR 1963 We live in a haunted marketplace, populated by the ...

As home prices have surged over the past several years, so too has the amount of equity homeowners are sitting on. As a result, home equity — the difference between your home's market value and the ...