Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

While the universe of companies is diverse, with approximately half of all firms from emerging markets, it is more concentrated in market capitalization, with the US accounting for 40% of global market capitalization at the start of the year. Macro Data I do not report much macroeconomic data for two reasons.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post. What is a risk free investment? Why does the risk-free rate matter?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 6, 2023

Washington Post ) Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Aswath Damodaran , Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. TBP ) see also Could Direct Indexing Lower Your Taxes? So how does $210,000 a month sound? Vox ) • How good, really, was Pablo Picasso? class nine times.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

They had the access to loss and excel really. And I think that’s a loss. So you discuss on how all this adds up to a puzzle of corporate finance that you enjoy untangling. It’s not corporate finance. Corporate finance and valuation are the things that I used to kind of exploit that passion.

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