It details, at a particular moment in time, exactly what the company owns and what it owes. It provides a breakdown of the capital structure of the company between debt and equity and analyses what its assets actually are. The stock market, a notoriously short-term beast, hangs on the Bank's interest rate pronouncements. When a company owes more than it can pay, or when its debts exceed its assets, it's bankrupt. Occasionally, this situation can exist for some time before a bank decides enough is enough and calls in its loans.
Bears are investors with pessimistic outlooks, as opposed to Bulls .
A mechanical investment strategy, based on buying large cap shares with a high dividend yield on a regular, rotational basis. Historically, it has been very successful. A measure of share volatility . High Beta stocks tend to exhibit greater price movement. On occasion this can be quite large and depends on the equity 's underlying price, liquidity , volatility and a number of other factors.