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Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
In this post, I will focus on how companies around the world, and in different sectors, performed on their end game of delivering profits, by first focusing on profitability differences across businesses, then converting profitability into returns, and comparing these returns to the hurdle rates that I talked about in my last data update post.
Global Finance
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
By providing immediate cash flow, SCF helps suppliers avoid the pitfalls of traditional loans that can be challenging to secure during economic downturns. billion by 2033 as economic and geopolitical pressures reshape how businesses approach working capital and financing. billion in 2024 and is expected to reach $15.2
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PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
And while partnerships, collaboration and internal product development have helped banks to improve their reputations for innovation among their corporate clients, a new report from Boston Consulting Group says it’s not enough. The analysis was drawn from a survey of 300 business banking units ranging in size. ”
Musings on Markets
AUGUST 15, 2023
As the risk-free rate rises, expected returns on equities will be pushed up, and holding all else constant, stock prices will go down., and the reverse will occur, when risk-free rates drop. Determinants So, why do risk-free rates vary across time and across currencies?
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 27, 2021
In my last post , I described the wild ride that the price of risk took in 2020, with equity risk premiums and default spreads initially sky rocketing, as the virus led to global economic shutdowns, and then just as abruptly dropping back to pre-crisis levels over the course of the year. Data Update 4 for 2021: The Hurdle Rate Question.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 9, 2021
The second is that there are great (and free) sources for macro economic data, ranging from the Federal Reserve (FRED) to the World Bank and I don’t see the point of replicating something that they already do well. Data Update 4 for 2021: The Hurdle Rate Question. Data Update 2 for 2021: The Price of Risk!
Musings on Markets
JULY 25, 2023
One is curiosity , as political and economic crises roll through regions of the world, roiling long-held beliefs about safe and risky countries. My suggestion is that for countries where recent political or economic events would lead you to believe that sovereign rating is dated, you should switch to using sovereign CDS spreads.
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