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Assignment: Securities Analysis
Company: General Motors Company
Market and Industry Analysis Assignment (10-12 pages)
Purpose of this research paper is to describe the current economic environment in the US stock market and your industry. Based on your analysis, you should project possible prospects of the market and the industry in the coming year, analyze the factors that affect the environment. Specifically, you should provide following detailed information in your analysis:
A. Company profile (The company is General Motors). You should choose a company with a tractable record at least five years. The company's accounting and market information should be available for your study. Your report should include the description on size and lines of business, brief history of the company, its position in the industry, and some major changes in recent years.
B. Brief statement on one year economic and political outlook in US regarding GDP, inflation, employment, interest rates, export and import. How does it impact on your company's performance?
C. Discuss your industry in terms of its industrial life cycle. Discuss industry problems and opportunities for the coming year. You can also discuss specifically the relationship between your industry and whole economy, such as business-cycle sensitivity.
Tips: • Organize your paper with section/subsection titles.
• Look up your data, figures/tables from theses websites: Mergent.com, Value Line, Dow Jones factiva, Yahoo Finance, Business Insight Global, IBISWorld, SCC.gov
• Include figures/tables if needed.
• Cite your sources where it is necessary in the text.
• Provide a complete list of references