Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

Lisa Shallet, chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley has had a number of fascinating roles in Wall Street, which is kind of amusing considering she had no interest in working on Wall Street, and yet she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein. I was traveling and on an airplane all the time. So I took the plunge, I quit.

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The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2025

Alright, Barry Ritholtz : So you end up at what could be my favorite advertisement, which was the EF Hutton ads. But the heart of the firm was still on the private client side for any number of strategic reasons. They get your date of birth and your social security number. And I said to myself, this, this is a rogue number.

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CFO Dive

JULY 1, 2025

I recently watched a Fortune 500 CFOs face change when I showed her Circles numbers: $1.7 Courtesy of Courtesy of Circle Guillaume Poncin is the chief technology officer at San Francisco, California-based Alchemy , a blockchain developer platform provider. Views are the author’s own. © 2025 TechTarget, Inc. or its subsidiaries.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 21, 2025

I even went on advertising calls with the advertising director. But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. And a, a number of things happened. It was so much fun and I learned so much.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 4, 2025

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CFO Dive

JULY 10, 2025

Samuel Corum via Getty Images The recently-enacted “ One Big Beautiful Bill Act ” could help lift sagging merger-and-acquisition volume numbers by creating a more attractive environment for dealmaking on the U.S. The total number of U.S. tax policy front, analysts said. © 2025 TechTarget, Inc. or its subsidiaries.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 13, 2025

Jack Bogle certainly was out in the industry and vocal, but at the firm level, you’re right, we didn’t do a lot of advertising. So I had oversight of our 420 plus the number’s probably even greater now, first mutual funds and increasingly ETFs. Karin Risi : No, I think that’s a fair characterization.

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CFO News

JUNE 27, 2025

PTI Published On Jun 27, 2025 at 04:51 PM IST Copy Link Share on WhatsApp Share on Linkedin Share on X Share on Telegram Share on Facebook Chartered accountants apex body ICAI is bullish on the growing global capability centres in the country and expects their number to cross 5,000 in the next two years.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

While the job losses varied across sectors, with job skills and unionization being determining factors, the top line numbers tell the story. The other number that I track is the equity risk premium , which at least in my telling, is a forward-looking number backed out of the market and the receptacle for the greed and fear in markets.

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Global Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

Serie A, B, and C teams are all in play as private equity firms join the mad rush to buy a dwindling number of assets. There are also tax credits related to sports sponsorships, which may benefit firms involved in the development of football stadiums through advertising partnerships.

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Global Finance

JUNE 16, 2025

Those numbers reflect in part the increasingly tense relations between mainland China, the regional behemoth, and the US, but also Malaysia’s common-law heritage, educated, English-speaking workforce, and significantly lower costs compared with its smaller neighbor, Singapore. billion (about US$88.2 year-on-year growth in investment.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 1, 2025

He didn’t advertise himself. 00:32:02 [Speaker Changed] First of all, that that chapter made me cry, number one. But that over a, a couple of decades, he took the place from being kind of mediocre to having the highest customer satisfaction of any institution in America, private or public, that includes Costco, Walmart, FedEx.

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CFO Dive

JUNE 11, 2025

Great numbers,” Conference Board Senior U.S. The Fed should feel comfortable with these numbers,” he said Wednesday in an email. The consumer price index, excluding volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.1% in May and 2.8% over a 12-month period, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday. © 2025 TechTarget, Inc.

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CFO Dive

JULY 9, 2025

The number is at its lowest level since the third quarter of last year. In a survey by the Big Four accounting firm, about 33% CFOs said they believe now is a good time to take on more risk, d own from 60% who expressed the same view in the first quarter. Dive Insight: Sweeping U.S. © 2025 TechTarget, Inc. or its subsidiaries.

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CFO Dive

JUNE 24, 2025

The breaches resulted in a number of lawsuits that were eventually combined into a single class action complaint before Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The judge has scheduled a Dec. 3 hearing to consider the settlement for final approval, according to a Friday order. or its subsidiaries.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 4, 2025

If it has a fourth word, it is either yellow or green ( Kent Hendricks ) but see 52 things I learned in 2024 : To highlight tax evasion, South Korea introduced ugly neon green number plates for company cars worth more than $58,000. Luxury car sales fell 27%. And therein lies the rub. (

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CFO Dive

JUNE 27, 2025

Andrew Harnik via Getty Images Dive Brief: State lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Delaware each voted on Thursday to pass their respective CPA pathways legislation, joining a growing number of states enacting new laws to provide alternative routes to obtaining a certified public accounting license and ease the accounting shortage.

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CFO Dive

JULY 8, 2025

Only half of respondents said they had clear visibility into SaaS usage while the number of respondents reporting full tech stack transparency fell four percentage points to 43%. Here’s how CFOs should approach it. © 2025 TechTarget, Inc. or its subsidiaries.

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Bramasol

JULY 7, 2025

M&A deals require better data consolidation to help companies create more personalized content recommendations and advertising opportunities based on a larger pool of customer data. This has impacted how media companies recognize revenue from subscriptions, pay-per-view content, and advertising.

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CFO Dive

JUNE 17, 2025

The company has also announced a number of sweeping changes and initiatives this year, including plans to create two new headquarters in Irvine, California and Plano, Texas, the company said in a February press release. The CEO announcement comes after the restaurant brand operator reported total revenues of $1.7 © 2025 TechTarget, Inc.

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CFO News

JULY 7, 2025

Please understand this 25 per cent number is far less than what is needed to eliminate the Trade Deficit disparity we have with your Country," Trump wrote to the two nations, The Hill reported. He shared details regarding tariffs on his social media platform, Truth Social, as well.

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CFO News

JULY 2, 2025

The Delhi High Court has restricted Patanjali Ayurved from broadcasting derogatory advertisements against Dabur India. Dabur India claims Patanjali's advertisements contain misinformation regarding the number of herbs used. Dabur India claims Patanjali's advertisements contain misinformation regarding the number of herbs used.

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CFO Dive

JULY 10, 2025

Both filings gave a California address with an incorrect zip code and list a phone number which routes back to the Tesla investor relations team. “It It has come to the attention of the Federal Election Commission that you may have failed to include the true, correct, or complete committee information under 52 U.S.C. or its subsidiaries.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For investment advisers looking to attract prospective clients, advertising the performance of their investment strategies would be a logical way to market their services (at least if they had strong historical returns!). Two final prohibitions under the Marketing Rule include restrictions on the use of predecessor performance (e.g.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Users and advertisers are coming back to Pinterest , resulting in an upswing in sales for the social media company, Bloomberg reported. growth was particularly strident, with more users returning to the service — though the company expects the numbers to fall going forward. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

billion in advertising revenue for the quarter, marking a 31 percent year-over-year rise. Drilling down into numbers reported in financial supplements that accompanied the earnings release, Facebook said that monthly active users (MAU) were 2.8 Facebook, Inc. reported on Wednesday (Jan. The social media company reported $27.19

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

Alphabet , the parent company of Google , strengthened its advertising capabilities in the second quarter as it looked to help connect business with customers through new features amid the pandemic. Drilling down into the numbers, YouTube revenues were up 5.8 billion, while total advertising revenues came in at $29.9

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. In the first session of my valuation class, I pose a question, “What comes more naturally to you, telling a story or working with numbers?”

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Advertising during the gridiron matchup remains the priciest on television: Thirty seconds of NBC airtime can cost up to $7 million. As crypto companies increase their advertising spending, brands have pumped out crypto-theme campaigns or marketing gimmicks to leverage the buzz surrounding cryptocurrencies. Newsletter Sign-up.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

Supply chains , advertising and the right fundamentals will need to be in place regardless of the expected burst of activity, whether it’s due to a pandemic or simply a hot product.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a move that lets users place and get phone calls through their Alexa gadgets, Amazon is launching a new collaboration with AT&T that will enable consumers to connect their phone numbers with their Alexa accounts, The Verge reported. And, with Amazon’s current Away Mode turned on, calls can be temporarily disabled.

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CFO News

MAY 8, 2023

If I look at the total number of clients last year, which was circa 700 in Finecast globally, about 250 of those were new clients into the Finecast ecosystem, and about 70 of those came from India," Lewis said, adding that these numbers show the readiness of Indian clients for the addressable TV advertising opportunity.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. That is because the answer will vary across people, with some exhibiting a more natural tendency towards story-telling and others towards working with numbers.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 26, 2023

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) is quite similar in that it is difficult for most people outside of the field to get too excited about numbers, spreadsheets, and reports. 2) Workday - Rockstar Super Bowl Commercial Workday put their humor on display on the most anticipated advertising stage of the year - the superbowl.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Meta derives nearly all of its revenue through selling advertising space, based largely on the strength of MAUs, on its social media sites and apps. The bigger its user base, the more attractive its platform is to advertisers. Meta’s next earnings report (for Q1 FY 2022) is estimated to be released on April 26, 2022.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In the years since, I have concluded that this is not true and that expense mis-categorization is not only common, but that it varies widely across sectors, making it difficult to compare accounting numbers or ratios across firms.

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