Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In 2014, it introduced Paytm Wallet , a digital wallet that was accepted as a payment option by leading service providers and retailers. In 2018, it added a Paytm Money , for investment and wealth management, and in 2019, it launched a Paytm for Business app for merchants to track payments.

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Valuation Profit and Loss Investments Numbers 72

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The music companies provided marketing support, seeking out radio stations that would carry their music, and distributional backing to get albums to retailers. That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business.

Entertainment 77

Entertainment Profit and Loss Numbers Marketing 77

PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

At the ripe old age of 120, the Swiss Army knife holds a unique place in retail. Now, the idea of an Amazon Echo with a touchscreen is not exactly new — it was reported in November 2016 that mega e-retailer Amazon was working on such a device — whose code name is said to be the Amazon Knight. Many of whom are also named Karl.

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Retail Profit and Loss Sales Manufacturing 49

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

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Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 116

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 61

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

It’s a storyline with some very strong parallels to the cryptocurrency stories being told and the investments that they now garner. These early advocates have stimulated a vast amount of investment into this vision; $1.7 billion has been invested into bitcoin/crypto-related ventures over the last eight years.

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Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Investments 71

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. ’cause bad things can happen to undifferentiated retailers. Let, let’s start with your background.

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Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. John was one of our managers that we had, you know, our clients invest in.

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Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 118

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. HOFFMAN: Yeah, so Bill, bit of a germaphobe, but he, you know, in mid-February, he has been reading, he’s a voracious consumer of, everything’s kind of a funnel to him and internalizes it in these investment theses.

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Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

What led you into that field of study in the world of investing? They had the access to loss and excel really. There are no Renaissance people left on Wall Street, and investing people who can talk about drama and talk about numbers at the same time. And I think that’s a loss. That’s fascinating.

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