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A debt/equity swap is a financial restructuring strategy where a company exchanges outstanding debt for equity in the business. This can help a company reduce its debt burden and interest costs while ...

How do you measure the burden of debt at a corporation? The traditional way is to compare debt to stockholders’ equity. But that doesn’t work well in a world of intangible assets. Better: compare debt ...

One positive development in the recent run-up of prices is that many homeowners now have substantially more equity. The average mortgage holder now holds $299,000 in equity, of which $193,000 is ...