CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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Spreadym

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Financial planning is a dynamic process, and it's essential to adapt your plan as your life evolves and as economic conditions change. Budget Variance: Compare actual financial results to budgeted or forecasted figures. Financial planning involves budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation to support the strategic objectives.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Chote Kiatruangamala Chote Kiatruangamala , finance director at Supernap (Thailand) , noted that during 2022, with the global inflation many firms had to downsize and realign themselves more closely to their business volumes while concentrating on improving cash flow.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Accounting for everything, especially when it comes to credit — in other words, taking stock and measure of where lending activities have been concentrated, where risk is and where losses may loom — is as much art as science. In remarks to analysts, he noted that “we start with a 12-month loss outlook which we forecast.

Accounting 63

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Accounting for everything, especially when it comes to credit — in other words, taking stock and measure of where lending activities have been concentrated, where risk is and where losses may loom — is as much art as science. In remarks to analysts, he noted that “we start with a 12-month loss outlook which we forecast.

Banking 56

Banking CFO Forecasting Concentration 56

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

Economics 100

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Looking across the risk capital metrics, notwithstanding the recovery we have seen in equities this year, it looks like risk capital is still on the side lines, perhaps because that recovery is concentrated in large and money-making companies. below the index value of 4288, confirming my base case conclusion.

Marketing 104

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

What we’re seeing is the retailers that have invested materially and brought a concentrated effort to their digital presence have had the ability to shift online materially [more quickly] and pick up a share of wallet that is actually increasing given that spend in hospitality and travel has nearly disappeared.”.

Concentration 82

Concentration Retail Forecasting Investments 82

The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 18, 2024

To acquire that information, CFOs must move away from structured forecasting and embrace a more agile approach that allows them to ask new questions on the fly and reforecast as circumstances change. Because of that, company owners frequently blame the CFOs for tough economic times and dismiss them as overhead.

CFO 52

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As for the market in 2021, depending on which specific region is looking in, millennial participation is widely forecast to be elevated, but in an environment that has hopefully normalized some after the significant disruption created by the COVID-19 pandemic. million new homes to be built across the U.S. —

Economics 141

Economics Forecasting Concentration Manufacturing 141

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 8, 2024

Long and Variable Lags : The recessionistas who are convinced a recession scenario is likely for 2024 are basing their forecasts a simple fact: Monetary policy impacts the economy on a delay (aka “long and variable lags”). Market Concentration : What happens when the Magnificent 7 is no longer so magnificent? November 29, 2023) _ 1.

Forecasting 130

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

percentage point from a year prior and higher than the consensus forecast of 5.11 consumer debt, not including mortgages, now equals an unprecedented 20 percent of the nation’s annual economic output because of ballooning volumes of student and auto loans. Charge-offs were at 5.33 percent, up 0.59 that analysts were looking for.

Concentration 41

Concentration Education Forecasting Economics 41

PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

And through the authors’ models, the global economic loss from SARS came close to $40 billion in 2003. To be sure, economic growth rebounded quickly, from 2.9 With the vast bulk of cases still confined to China, the economic impact would likely be most concentrated in that country, and the general region. percent to 4.4

Economics 66

Economics Concentration Sales Retail 66

Future CFO

JANUARY 10, 2024

A look back at 2023 and it becomes clear that persistent challenges were the norm for much of the year – be it in the form of social, geopolitical or economic. Insolvency in Asia The Allianz Research paper, Global Economic Outlook 2023-25 , notes that businesses face declining demand and higher costs while pricing power is fading.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Concentration Economics Risk Management 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There’s also quantitative metrics that we look at Those have evolved, but always within that capa, that cluster of high returns on investment stability across the economic cycle are consistent and strong balance sheets. I think right now, just in a market cap sense, market concentration, there are a lot more growth stocks.

Valuation 52

Valuation Investments Finance Math 52

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

It is true that economic activity has leveled off and housing prices have declined a little, relative to a year ago, but given the rise in rates in 2022, those changes are mild. If anything, the economy seems to have settled into a stable pattern, albeit at the high levels that it reached in the second half of 2021.

Marketing 95

Marketing Treasury Currencies Valuation 95

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 14, 2023

Well, he’s making an economic forecast, before you pay attention to something that seems kind of radical, what’s their track record in the past? Is it helpful to know that the 60-year old pre-retiree is holding onto a highly-concentrated stock position because of overconfidence bias? What do you mean?

Concentration 114

Concentration Finance Forecasting Planning 114

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

The most obvious reason is economic, where a crisis and collapse in government revenues, from taxes and other sources, causes a government to be unable meet its obligations. Ultimately, a government that chooses to default is making a political choice, as much as it is an economic one.

Investments 80

Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 80

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.

Valuation 52

Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

India seems to be like a perennial next economic powerhouse after China and it just always seems to be not catching that next bid. JOHNSON: It became a much riskier investment by investing the S&P 500 based on volatility and concentration. RITHOLTZ: So I don’t want to talk about politics. We’re recording this.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 85

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 85

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The USDA forecasts that grocers lose a whopping $15 billion each year in unsold fruits and vegetables. Some companies are aiming to tackle this economic and environmental challenge with the help of mobile order-ahead innovation. Gtonnes of CO2 equivalent: as such, food wastage ranks as the third top emitter after USA and China.”.

Concentration 57

Concentration Retail Education Forecasting 57

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

Euromonitor used the same optimism, comparing it to other BRICs and predicting it as the country likely to see the strongest economic growth. But a deeper examination of the trends within individual economies reveals ripple effects that make such forecasting complex. One of those routes to market is the availability of cash.

Concentration 40

Concentration Advertising Education Forecasting 40

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business. Through this period, t he big studios still controlled a large share of the content business, but independent studies, often more daring in choice of topics and settings, took a share.

Entertainment 77

Entertainment Profit and Loss Numbers Marketing 77

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. You have a background, undergraduate, your economics degree from Notre Dame, but you were dual-major Spanish language and Literature degree, how useful was that in Latin America?

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 114

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

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. Well, I’m not forecasting another 20% down, but I do think we could go down 5% or 10%. And a lot of those equities went down a lot.

Profit and Loss 117

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 117

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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. And so that can cause the impulse of the economic news to be filtered into financial conditions much more, more quickly. But those forecasts are, you know, not particularly reliable.

Treasury 56

Treasury Marketing Economics Banking 56

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

And the second was, of course, the Warren Buffett story that came out the same week, where he essentially called people who post buybacks, you know, economically illiterate. I create these concentric circles for people who have time and say, if you have this much time, try these extra things. I mean, strong words for Buffett.

Valuation 114

Valuation Education Finance Investments 114

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And economic indicators, like the unemployment rate or the claims data, and you know, we actually did some scenario analysis around that recently, just talking about, Hey, what happens if the employment rate rises versus falls? I mean, I, I haven’t done that much work. I think, I think it’s probably more useful.

Marketing 60

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 60

CFO News Room

JANUARY 16, 2023

SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentration and linked longitudinal seroprevalence: a spatial analysis of strain mutation, post-COVID-19 vaccination effect, and hospitalization burden forecasting (preprint) medRxiv. Findings: We found strong linear association between wastewater concentration and estimated community prevalence (r=0·916).

Concentration 130

Concentration Economics Forecasting Communication 130

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Davos tries testing: Everyone at the World Economic Forum annual meeting — including journalists and participants — has to take a PCR test upon arrival. An ERV can economically introduce fresh ventilation air into your home. We are now two weeks away from holiday travel, so we should have a result. See below at case data.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The account is a “ biorisk consultant specialising in COVID-19 business continuity, forecasting, and analysis.”). * * *. * * *. * * *. * * *. December 5: • California data point (1): 1/ SARS-CoV-2 concentrations are skyrocketing in wastewater across California. Thread worth reading in full. Transmission. Stay safe when travelling.

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