liquidity

Like consumers, companies can take on too much debt. The debt-to-equity ratio offers one way to tell whether a leveraged business is taking on too much. Here's how you can do the simple math before you invest.

Unless you're ultra-wealthy or willing to chance the vagaries of the secondary markets, you can't invest yet in hot social networking companies like Facebook, Zynga or Groupon. But soon there may be an alternative: a new fund called NeXt BDC Capital that will take stakes in top-quality venture-backed firms like those.

Standard & Poor's is revamping its credit rating methodology for banks and financial institutions in a way that may cause about 40% of rated banks to get a downgrade, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The investment world's love affair with ETFs continued in 2010, as more than 1,000 funds managed assets of $940 billion. Here's a review of the best and the worst performers, and a few reminders about how to use these investment vehicles safely.

Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (GAP) may sell its Food Emporium stores to help boost liquidity, The Wall Street Journal reported. The supermarket operator has said it will consider selling "non-core assets" to improve liquidity. The company announced losses of $122.6 million, or $4.83 a...

Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Wednesday (last updated at 7:59 a.m. Eastern time): FCC Bungling Propelled 'Net Neutrality' Deal: Efforts by the Federal Communications Commission in recent years to maintain a level playing field for Internet traffic may...

Now that Goldman Sachs has forecast that 2010 will be a good year for stocks (and if they expected a lousy year, do you think they'd announce it or just quietly sell?), it's official: All four widely held asset classes -- stocks, bonds, precious metals and real estate -- are expected to continue...