When someone says they own shares of X, what they typically mean is that a broker owns shares of X on their behalf in “street name”[1]. But wait, no, the broker doesn’t really own the shares either. Shares are held and legally owned by Cede & Co., the nominee of the Depository Trust Company (DTC)[2], […]
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For real estate markets to properly function, the buyer of a property and the lender financing its purchase must be assured that the person selling it actually has the right to do so and that the delinquencies of any prior owner have not lingered in the form of present day ownership conflicts. In the US, […]
Code Media (2/14/2018; Analyst Michael Nathanson on where media is headed) Michael Nathanson “Over the past 4 years [from 2013 to 2017], the FANG stocks have added $1.4tn of market cap. At the same time, the media industry, the content network industry, the studio industry, has lost about $40bn of market cap. This is one […]