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Business Strategies: Choosing the Right KPIs for Your Small Business

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Consider industry benchmarks or standards to ensure alignment. These risk misunderstanding and a feeling of “I don’t trust the numbers.” Foreign exchange rate, while important to an international business, is outside its control and largely unactionable. Gourmet restaurants focus on Avg.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

And if you’re able to do that in a diverse number of markets and asset classes, while managing risk in the markets that aren’t trending, you know, that’s in general how trend following works. That’s the foreign exchange markets, and to some extent, commodities. That’s the equity markets.

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Transcript: Bill Dudley, NY Fed Chief

Barry Ritholtz

But, but, you know, we, I focused mostly on fixed income and foreign exchange. 00:07:47 [Speaker Changed] So, so after, you know, more than 20 years at Goldman, you joined the New York Fed in 2007, overseeing domestic and foreign exchange trading operations, 2007, that, that’s some timing.