Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

In my third post at the start of 2023, I looked at US treasuries, the long-touted haven of safety for investors. In 2022, they were in the eye on the storm, with the ten-year US treasury bond depreciating in price by more than 19% during the year, the worst year for US treasury returns in a century.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The first was the response that I received to my last data update , where I looked at the profitability of businesses, and specifically at how a comparison of accounting returns on equity (capital) to costs of equity (capital) can yield a measure of excess returns.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

During 2022, the US treasury did not default, but an investor in a 10-year US treasury bond would have earned a return of -18% on his or her investment, as bond prices dropped. and how much to hold in investments with guaranteed returns over their time horizon (cash, treasury bill and treasury bonds).

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Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

The extremely high market volatility during the health crisis, one of the economic consequences of COVID, also forced many companies to review their hedging strategy. frozen into equity item) must remain in equity until such time as this cash flow occurs / materializes and affects profit or loss.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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Spreadym

JULY 19, 2023

The three main types of financial statements are: Income Statement (Profit and Loss Statement) Balance Sheet (Statement of Financial Position) Cash Flow Statement Income Statement (Profit and Loss Statement) The income statement summarizes a company's revenues, expenses, and profits or losses over a specific period, typically quarterly or annually.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We’ve noted that the stage has been set for M&A to ramp up, due in part to lower corporate taxes, which gives firms higher profits, which in turn gives them more money to both extend loans (building up customer bases) and have money in hand to pursue deals. PNC sold its stake in Blackrock for $15 billion, adding to its dealmaking ability.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

One out of every three Americans said they had experienced a loss of income as a result of the pandemic. This loss can be crippling for consumers who live paycheck to paycheck or have little savings. Approximately 40 percent of U.S. consumers cannot pay for a $400 emergency. “We Mastering Multichannel Commerce Playbook.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to normalcy on many fronts, as treasury rates reverted back to pre-2008 levels, and risk capital discovered that risk has a downside.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

According to Frey, the current economic climate is particularly affected by sudden policy shifts that may not necessarily be rooted in sound economic fundamentals. In a world of shifting political winds, rising protectionism and trade disputes, global uncertainty very quickly translates into FX volatility.

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CSC Advisors

JUNE 27, 2023

PPP Round Two The Small Business Administration and Department of Treasury have made PPP round two loans accessible to certain business owners. Every potential borrower must calculate revenue reduction and prove the 25% loss via gross receipts. You do not add the net profit amount but focus only on the payroll costs.

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CSC Advisors

MARCH 14, 2021

The Small Business Administration and Department of Treasury have made PPP round two loans accessible to certain business owners. Every potential borrower must calculate revenue reduction and prove the 25% loss via gross receipts. Finally, add the amount of any Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) that you want to refinance.

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Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

Lending rates followed central bank tightening moves, while deposit rates lagged; and across the region, there were some record profits. In Japan, profits at the country’s five most prominent banking groups leapt 56% to a record ¥2 trillion (about $12.6 billion after-tax profit versus $8.3 billion; a 2.3% billion in 2022.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2018

billion of its profit thanks to the cut. Expanding a bit on digital initiatives, and in response to an analyst question on banking, Lake called it a “nexus” for firm efforts — to which CEO Jamie Dimon said, “In treasury services, we’re bringing you a new international payment system. Wells said it booked $3.3 billion, where $25.1

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. stocks (which have a lengthy track record of outperforming inflation over long time horizons) and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS). He can be reached at [email protected]. Read More +.

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Global Finance

MAY 10, 2024

Ryan, Deutsche Bank: China is holding fewer US treasuries and more agency and corporate securities. Eighty-eight percent of respondents planned to increase their FDI commitments, and 89% called FDI “more important to their corporate profitability and competitiveness” over that period.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. In addition, growth in the experiences business will also push this metric upwards, since Airbnb keeps a 20% share of those revenues.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2022

ELLIS: Well, it starts with one very simple proposition, nobody is making a profit. Every other investment organization got a problem that somebody is taking money out of the pot every day, every month, every year as a profit. I start a business to make a profit. I’ll get bigger, I’ll make more profits.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

That said, it does mean that any broad conclusions (about profitability and revenues) that emerge from my data apply to public companies, and it may be dangerous to extrapolate to private businesses, especially in a year like 2020 where private businesses could have been affected more adversely by COVID shutdowns than public companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. And you do a lot of work with infinity [Barry Ritholtz] : 00:03:29 [Speaker Changed] And then economics, which is a little bit squishier. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree? What is that?

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This essay is forthcoming in the Review of Keynesian Economics and is posted here with the permission of the editor. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website 1. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and a Professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin. Contact: galbraith@mail.utexas.edu.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

STEVEN KLINSKY, FOUNDER, CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW MOUNTAIN CAPITAL: I come from the Detroit area of Michigan as a public school kid, went to University of Michigan and studied both economics and philosophy. September 13, 1981, I think the 10-year Treasury was 15.84 You got 60 percent of losses ahead of you. KLINSKY: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. RITHOLTZ: Like, very different universe, right? TROPIN: Right. TROPIN: Yeah. No, no, no.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

Not only did he serve on the Brady Commission looking at the ’87 crash, but his history of investing and trading and public service, both at the Fed and the Chicago Board of Trade and Treasury Department, really unparalleled, as well as just a pretty amazing track record as an investor and trader. We don’t want to participate.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House. And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. The homes are here.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

There’s very few, I would argue probably no consistent predictors of, of any sort of economic or market cyclicality. And instead of replacing a house, you’re replacing exposure like the s and p 500 or treasuries, where historically it’s been really hard to beat the market. 00:36:18 [Speaker Changed] Huh.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Now you have to assume some losses. Barry Ritholtz : And these bonds are still profitable Jeffrey Sherman : And they don’t break, like they, they don’t, they don’t, they don’t lose money, especially at 50 cents on dollar. Well, if you only care about yield, just go buy treasuries. If, if if house prices.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. When you write a check, you get check float, it takes time for the checks to come back to the hit the treasury account. Let, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. While an economic and market downturn might give investors a short-term lesson in the dangers of greed, a market upturn often brings back many of these demons as investors succumb to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2020

While Twitter has been profitable over the last few years, the San Francisco-based company reported a more than $1 billion loss in the second quarter, WSJ reported. Twitter has made the case that it would have a better chance over questions over antitrust since it is smaller than Microsoft or other potential bidders, WSJ reported.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

That said, to value companies today, I have no choice but to bring in the economics and politics of the world that these companies inhabit. China : The biggest winner from globalization has been China, which has seen its economic and political power surge over the last four decades.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This, this is true with every pump and up scheme, every pyramid scheme, and it, it comes out in some of the court documents later that in, in some of the corporate Slack accounts, one, one of the people say they should be the director of Ponzi economics. Put it in Riskless Treasuries. They release their profits every quarter.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. He knows how to manage risk, and he knows how to trade for a profit for a p and l. Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary. Or who has this profit? He knows how to run a team.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And you know, a bad diet tends to be associated with lower economic strata. Profiteering fraud. It just, the, the, the profiteering really was utterly insane. The profits aren’t big enough and the vac the need for the vaccines comes and goes. Not great outcome. Absolute disaster. And that was it.

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