Reading and understanding the Financial times : updated for 2010-2011 / Kevin Boakes.

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Reading and Understanding the Financial Times analyses a selection of topical FT articles with recurrent themes relating to some of the most important issues in the world of corporate finance, leaving you ready to conduct your own analysis the next time you read the FT for business or pleasure

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• About the author
• Preface
• Online web content
• The podcasts
• A message to readers ...
• A message to teachers ...
• The podcasts
• Acknowledgements
• Publisher's acknowledgements
• Topic 1 Introduction to corporate finance: the goals of companies
• Poor communications puts Sport's Direct off track
• Article 1 Sports Direct warning stumps investors
• Financial Times, 27 April 2007
• Activist shareholders demand change at Logica
• Article 2 Logica's chief quits in wake of warning
• Financial Times, 28 May 2007
• Article 3 Investors expecting change at LogicaCMG
• Financial Times, 30 May 2007
• Not so easy for Sir Stelios!
• Article 4 Sir Stelios spells out fears for EasyJet
• Financial Times, 24 November 2008
• Topic 2 Financial institutions featuring investment banks
• Financial markets watch the new Fed Chairman
• Article 5 Bernanke to give a taste of more transparent Fed
• Financial Times, 14 February 2006
• The roller coaster life of an investment banker
• Article 6 How long can the good times last? Bankers cautious despite bids and bumper bonuses
• Financial Times, 27 November 2006
• Article 7 JPMorgan to cut prop trading desk
• Francesco Guerrera, Justin Baer and Jeremy Grant
• Financial Times, 4 November 2008
• More transparency needed at the Bank of England
• Article 8 Bank to give better guidance over rates
• Financial Times, 3 May 2007
• Topic 3 Financial markets
• At 1.30 p.m. in London all eyes are on the screens
• Article 9 Surprising US job creation data rally stock markets and dollar
• FT Reporters
• Financial Times, 2 June 2007
• Financial markets standing at a crossroads
• Article 10 Bond yields spark credit concerns
• Financial Times, 8 June 2007
• Article 11 Bond market sell-off
• Financial Times, 8 June 2007
• Topic 4 Debt finance
• Greek government launches new bond issue
• Article 12 Athens prepares 50-year bond issue worth e500-e1bn
• Financial Times, 18 January 2007
• Japanese convertibles back in fashion
• Article 13 Convertibles stage a return to fashion
• Financial Times, 8 February 2007
• Bulldog, Yankee and Samurai bonds ...
• Article 14 Record samurai deal by Citigroup
• Financial Times, 6 September 2005
• European bond markets start to diverge
• Article 15 Flight to liquidity pushes eurozone bond yields apart
• Financial Times, 27 February 2008
• Topic 5 Capital structure
• MyTravel on the brink
• Article 16 MyTravel Shareholders offered 4% in £800m debt-to-equity restructuring
• Financial Times, 14 October 2004
• Blacks Leisure hit by global warming
• Article 17 Blacks Leisure falls into the red
• Financial Times, 4 May 2007
• Looking for the 'right' way forward
• Article 18 UK investors dig in over pre-emption rights
• Financial Times, 22 October 2007
• Topic 6 Equity finance
• Hargreaves' founders float all the way to the bank
• Article 19 IPO values Hargreaves at £750m
• Financial Times, 12 May 2007
• Article 20 Hargreaves Lansdown soars on debut
• Financial Times, 16 May 2007
• Good value at Sainsbury's?
• Article 21 Valuing Sainsbury's
• Financial Times, 17 May 2007
• As Woolworths died we try speed-dating for the last time!
• Article 22 Woolies investor opposes sale
• Financial Times, 20 November 2008
• Topic 7 Stock market efficiency
• Company share split down the middle
• Article 23 Stock splits: time to query decades of dogma
• Financial Times, 8 April 2007
• Topic 8 Private equity finance featuring management buyouts
• Private equity firm fills its Boots
• Article 24 Boots provides takeover acid test
• Financial Times, 21 April 2007
• Economic slowdown provokes unease at private equity firm
• Article 25 3i chief Yea quits following steep fall in shares
• Financial Times, 29 January 2009
• Topic 9 Dividend policy
• Have share buybacks gone too far?
• Article 26 Shareholders taking a stand on handouts
• Financial Times, 19 May 2007
• Printing money pays big dividends for De La Rue
• Article 27 De La Rue pays a special dividend
• Financial Times, 23 May 2007
• Topic 10 Mergers and acquisitions
• Sophisticated European company into hot metal seeks more sympathetic
• Partner to rescue them from a very unhappy prospective partner. No time wasters please. Call 0905 560 4000
• Article 28 Discussions unlikely to yield white knight
• Financial Times, 2 February 06
• Article 29 Mittal goes on Arcelor charm offensive
• Financial Times, 31 January 2006
• Can Japanese sauce spice up US Hedge fund?
• Article 30 Poison Pill's strength under analysis
• Financial Times, 15 June 2007
• Topic 11 Risk management and hedge funds
• The $2 pound puts pressure on UK companies
• Article 31 Exporters curse dollar's drag on profits
• Financial Times, 14 May 2007
• So tell me what do these hedge funds actually do?
• Article 32 Facing down the threat of tighter rules
• Financial Times, 20 June 2007
• Topic 12 Bank failures featuring Northern Rock and Citigroup
• Bank 1 - Northern Rock: the road to nationalisation
• Article 33 Fresh turmoil in equity markets
• Financial Times, 11 August 2007
• Article 34 Repo Market little known but crucial to the system
• Financial Times, 11 August 2007
• Article 35 Growing sense of crisis over interbank deals
• Financial Times, 5 September 2007
• Article 36 Bank throws Northern Rock funding lifeline
• Financial Times, 14 September 2007
• Article 37 Brown saw no other option
• Financial Times, 18 February 2008
• Bank 2 - Back in the USA the government acts to save Citigroup
• Article 38 US government agrees to take biggest stake in Citigroup
• Financial Times, 28 February 2009
• Appendix: the secret places inside the Financial Times ...
• Glossary
• Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kevin Boakes is a senior lecturer in the School of Accounting and Finance at Kingston University. He has written for the Times, the Observer, Guardian and The Financial World Tonight . Prior to teaching Kevin was the Chief UK Economist for Greenwell Montague Gilt-edged, which is now part of HSBC, where he was responsible for providing spot-on advice to bond traders as soon economic stories hit the news screen.