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How global treasurers and CFOs should approach an erratic economy

Future CFO

Faced with ongoing market volatility, the enterprise C-suite is leaning on its treasury teams like never before to protect company assets and to (ideally) also capitalise on competitive opportunities emerging from an unstable macroeconomic climate. This article discusses some of the key takeaways from that report.

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The Sharing Economy come home: The IPO of Airbnb!

Musings on Markets

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. It’s relative: The first is that it was not just Airbnb that felt the pain from the economic shut down.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. And what’s their budget like a fraction of it, right? So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?” So, it cost the firm $320,000, well worth every penny? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. TROPIN: And you know, we certainly did that on a portion of what we look at as our risk budget. TROPIN: I mean, you know, there were equity hedge funds that were pretty levered, that had pretty highly concentrated, you know, growth bets, and a lot of technology companies and so on.

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Transcript: Bill Dudley, NY Fed Chief

Barry Ritholtz

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.