Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

During 2022, the US treasury did not default, but an investor in a 10-year US treasury bond would have earned a return of -18% on his or her investment, as bond prices dropped. and how much to hold in investments with guaranteed returns over their time horizon (cash, treasury bill and treasury bonds).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

While the corporate treasurer's fundamental role has remained steady, the treasury function has seen dramatic impacts from a changing market that is increasingly moving toward real time. Some key tools that emerged as most beneficial to treasurers included physical cash concentration, notional pooling and virtual account solutions.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

In my third post at the start of 2023, I looked at US treasuries, the long-touted haven of safety for investors. In 2022, they were in the eye on the storm, with the ten-year US treasury bond depreciating in price by more than 19% during the year, the worst year for US treasury returns in a century.

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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.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Allianz Trade Global Insolvency Index forecasts insolvencies to increase by +6% in 2023 and at least +10% in 2024. Forecasts for 2024 and 2025 “Generally speaking, we don’t see 2024 as a good year,” Lee says, noting that they expect insolvency trends for the year to go up.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. 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%. TROPIN: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

They don’t let the reporters into the fun stuff, but it’s a bunch of CEOs with Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, and they’re all yakking about this, the big theme that year, as it often has been since then, was environment, ESG, and they’re all talking about the kind of corporate babble that you hear at these things.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So, for example, the treasury was thinking about moving to direct deposit, but they wanted to know how much it was gonna cost them because direct deposit, they, they, they, they, the money clears, you know, sorry, almost instantly, right? So they wanna know how many days does it take a, a treasury check to get back to us.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So, so here’s, here’s the why I, I’m looking at it near term, not, not making any sort of forecast or anything like that, but last year where we stood market was very nervous, s and p around the 200 week moving average finally started bottoming out. 00:29:11 [Speaker Changed] I mean, I think they do.

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