Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But that’s not all : I also have the opportunity to invest those dollars : I can buy a broad market index, expecting it’ll appreciate; I can buy bonds and enjoy the income they yield; I could purchase real estate, which either gives me a place to live or rent out for income; I could also use that money to start or build a business.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

So Walmart went to its go-to strength in this battle, and that’s mass market media. That’s partly because of their slow pace, and perhaps partly because the company isn’t making a point of calling them part of a campaign to become a lifestyle company,” says the stock market analysis site.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2019

A host of potential resolutions to the mystery flooded across the web – the most popular being that this was some kind of marketing stunt by In-N-Out, possible portending a New York opening. The problem with marketing stunts is that they rarely thread that needle. But In-N-Out was pretty adamant that it wasn’t them. But they didn’t.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

eCommerce market is far below previous projections. The downward revision of Amazon’s market share comes as the eCommerce giant finds itself, along with Facebook and Google, in the cross-hairs of regulators who believe they’ve grown too large, too powerful and very much in need of antitrust oversight. eMarketer has done its math.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Hustle ). • What Is the Bond Market Saying About the Economy? The bond market is known for being much smarter than the stock market but we don’t have to go back very far to find a time when it was wrong. The bond market certainly DID NOT see the pandemic-induced inflation coming. ( New York Times ). • Economist ).

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2024

TikTokInvestors: “Apart from his misleading arrogance and the inaccurate market statistics mentioned, a 401K is possibly the best investment vehicle for the average American. I doubt he’s run the real numbers of being invested in the stock market tax deferred with an additional company match. The dumbest idea ever!

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 7, 2024

We simply do not know; there are always myriad factors at play in our dynamic labor market. That’s not even math. They show a net gain of a statistically insignificant 13 jobs added. There were 2k shed in March. Was that related to the minimum wage? The wage hike took place Apr 1 2024. That’s just being able to read a calendar.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Intel’s market share continues to decline. Its stock price has plummeted 60% this year and its market capitalization fell below $100 billion in early August: the first time that has happened since 2012. This would translate to a market value of about $135 billion.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

This, Ciabarra notes, is a notable difference in bottom line for small and medium sized businesses on tight margins – that requires essentially no investment or upgrade – or marketing costs – just willingness to participate in a virtual world that someone else maintains.

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. This transparency also helps build consensus-based scenario planning, where decisions can be explored and talked about before they’re enacted.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On average, our customers will see a 20 percent lift in approvals and a 30 percent reduction in charge-offs just by deploying better math,” de Vere said. De Vere isn’t bashful when it comes to talking about Zest AI, its mission and product/market fit. “We 15M In New Funding . That's our future,” de Vere said.

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CFO Simplified

JUNE 19, 2022

As a business owner, you need to understand what your total cost of marketing and sales is. This might include the amount you’re spending on: Digital marketing. Marketing salaries and bonuses (which depend on whether you’re marketing is outsourced or in-house). Let’s look at customer acquisition first.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 1, 2023

Barron’s ) • The Bear Market’s Survivors Share Their Biggest Lessons : With the S&P 500 in the longest bear market since 1973, individual investors maneuver differently from just months ago. But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. The easy part is over. The first was don’t lose money.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 21, 2024

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey indicates that financial advisors continue to move towards ETFs and away from mutual funds when it comes to client portfolio recommendations, though a majority of advisors continue to see a role for active management in the investment management process A former employee has filed a lawsuit alleging (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 12, 2023

Additionally, certain types of Monte Carlo analyses were found to be more error-prone than others, including a Traditional Monte Carlo approach using a single set of Capital Markets Assumptions (CMAs) applied across the entire plan, and a Reduced-CMA Monte Carlo analysis, similar to the Traditional model but with CMAs reduced by 2%.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

And recent declines in TIPS’ auction prices, along with other market signals, suggest some investors believe inflation may cool off, which could also hurt their returns. Investors can mitigate this interest-rate risk by buying TIPS themselves—either directly from the Treasury or in the market—and holding them to maturity.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

This framework is designed to address how the technology could be used across multiple business functions to increase efficiencies across markets, including how blockchain can transform the way information and services are shared. Japan Cracks Down On Bitcoin Exchanges.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2024

Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. You can know everything about math and data and markets, but if you don’t control your sense of greed and fear and you’re managing uncertainty in your behavior, none of it matters. None of it matters.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 11, 2023

Bloomberg ) • From Pepperoni Math to Nepo Babies, Summer Is for Interns : Your first experience at work is not often forgotten. The rental market slowdown in finally reflected in inflation numbers Source: Apartment List Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here. Buffett won).

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

His philanthropy includes sitting on the board of directors of Paul Tudor Jones’ Robin Hood Foundation and Jim Simon’s Math for America. He is fond of noting: “Markets spend a lot of time doing nothing, then they reprice.” He explains what the trading experience was like on Black Monday, 1987.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 17, 2023

Fundamentals: ( Of Dollars And Data ) see also The Long-Term Wins : These periods do seem arbitrary but the changing of the calendar from one year to the next offers a good chance for market nerds like myself to update some long-term market data. ( A Wealth of Common Sense ). It was an era of illusory and ridiculous promises. (

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. You also need a deep understanding of financial market history from booms to busts. You need to understand how corporations and the global economy generally function over the long haul.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Meb Faber : Well, it’s a romping, stomping bull market. And that’s the broad market. And the way math works, you end up with a stock that goes up a bunch. We’ve done the math on some of these high-yield portfolios and taxable accounts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

We’re targeting Anglophone West Africa … for a market of effectively 300 million people,” Shagaya told TechCrunch. The curriculum will include practice tests and tailored content focused on math, physics, chemistry and biology. The company is headquartered in Lagos with a production studio in Jos.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Consumer sales grew 14 percent compared with the first half of 2019 and the brand’s global market share increased. Toy industry sales increased by 9 percent in the first half of 2020 across the 12 global markets tracked by The NPD Group. Global revenue for the first half of the year grew 7 percent to $15.7 Operating profit was $3.9

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We see it in the capital markets. And I am a lover of math. I was a math nerd in high school. Math is one of my favorite tools. And so a overly simplistic application of a market based model will really leave you seeing only half the picture. You see it from employees.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

s proposals on how to govern London’s access to the European market after Brexit, saying that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s latest plan would take away the EU’s “decision-making autonomy.” Everybody can do the maths. Last month it was reported that the U.K. In July, Brussels rejected the U.K.’s

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 29, 2025

My family wanted me to do medicine as i was good at both math’s and science, but finance was where my heart was. My ideal superpower will be instant financial foresight – the ability to accurately predict market trends and economic shifts. It was then that i new finance was my go-to carrier choice.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2016

The latest growth initiatives have centered on the Tapp Market mobile app, and in pushing into Indonesia and the Philippines, the app has witnessed what management said amounted to “exponential” growth. Through the Market platform, sales agents, who are billed as micro-entreprenuers, help with prepaid electric bills, for example.

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VCFO

AUGUST 11, 2022

oil and gas industry has remained resilient through continued market volatility and tough-to-predict booms and busts – even through the compounding wake of COVID and other recent market disruptions. Renewable energy by nature demands different talent pools with more advanced technical and math skills to help guide the initiatives.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

At least, if you are a smart investor who does the right things: Set up a financial plan, manage your own behavior, engage in long-term thinking, and avoid reacting to the endless daily noise that markets + media generate. Giving up permanent gains to avoid impermanent drops seems like an awful exchange.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

New Math: Walmart+ Doesn’t Equal Amazon Prime. Walmart+ enrollment is underway, and market watchers are avidly wondering how many consumers will sign on for Walmart’s $98 a year subscription, which includes are free grocery deliveries (and other products) above $35, and scan-and-go (contactless) payments within the app.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Businessweek ) • The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Stock Market Indicator? Businessweek ) • The Super Bowl’s Most Reliable Stock Market Indicator? Business Insider ) • Stop treating unemployment as a necessary evil to curb inflation : An economist explains why it’s time to rethink popular assumptions about layoffs. (

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

markets are closed. The math shakes out thus: Each token is equivalent to one share in a particular company and the holder has the right to receive dividends, even though, as Bloomberg noted, “the companies themselves are not involved.”. Might the emergence of the exchange offer some liquidity to the markets? And stocks ?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As reported in July, Visa Installments, a new point-of-sale (POS) credit solution, debuted in pilot markets across the U.S. Visa CEO Alfred Kelly said on the most recent earnings call that installments represent “a pretty interesting space, and I think we're in the early days in most markets.

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The Charity CFO

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In essence, Travis tells us the law specifies that corporations ( specifically C-Corps) can not only donate their cost when they donate certain items of excess inventory, but they can utilize a rule that allows one half of their markup to the fair market value of the piece. So the second option, donation right?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

He explained that the automotive industry is the one place where the concepts of IoT can be made very real to the mass market — where they will be able to see it, understand it and really feel its impact. That presents a very real threat, both to market adoption of the technology and also to the individuals in the car,” McCammon stated.

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