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A repurchase agreement, also known as a repo, RP, or sale and repurchase agreement, is a form of short-term borrowing, mainly in government securities.The dealer sells the underlying security to investors and, by agreement between the two parties, buys them back shortly afterwards, usually the following day, at a slightly higher price.
Repo 105 is Lehman Brothers' name for an accounting maneuver that it used where a short-term repurchase agreement is classified as a sale. The cash obtained through this "sale" is then used to pay down debt, allowing the company to appear to reduce its leverage by temporarily paying down liabilities—just long enough to reflect on the company's published balance sheet.
A sweep account combines two or more accounts at a bank or a financial institution, moving funds between them in a predetermined manner. [1] Sweep accounts are useful in managing a steady cash flow between a cash account used to make scheduled payments, and an investment account where the cash is able to accrue a higher return.
The Office of Financial Research (OFR), a U.S. Treasury Department-based research powerhouse, said on Monday it has adopted a final rule that will allow it to collect data on certain transactions ...
Journal of Corporate Finance 15.2 (2009): 212–229. Schumpeter, "Six muddles about share buy-backs: Stock repurchases by American firms are on the rise. So is the confusion surrounding them". The Economist 31 May 2018. Wesson, N., B. W. Bruwer, and W. D. Hamman. "Share repurchase and dividend payout behaviour: The South African experience".
As part of an overall stock buyback scheme, Merck has launched an accelerated repurchase program to buy shares held by Goldman Sachs. All told, the pharmaceutical company will purchase $5 billion ...
A journal entry is the act of keeping or making records of any transactions either economic or non-economic. Transactions are listed in an accounting journal that shows a company's debit and credit balances. The journal entry can consist of several recordings, each of which is either a debit or a credit. The total of the debits must equal the ...
The Federal Reserve's present-day dual mandate monetary policy objectives to keep prices stable and unemployment low has replaced past practices under a gold standard where the main concern was the gold equivalent of the local currency, or under a gold exchange standard where the concern is fixing the exchange rate versus another gold ...