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Meta, Amazon, Snap, Pinterest: What to Watch in the Stock Market Today

CFO News Room

Technology shares are leading losses after Facebook parent Meta Platforms surprised investors with a bigger-than-expected profit drop. Snap , Pinterest and Amazon are all due to report after markets close, and are being pulled down premarket amid the broader tech gloom. billion profit in the recent quarter.

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Deutsche Bank Posts $924M Loss As Restructuring Continues

PYMNTS

Germany’s Deutsche Bank reported a net loss below market expectations amid a restructuring plan that includes about 18,000 layoffs, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday (Oct. The lender reported a net loss of $924 million (832 million euros) for the third quarter of 2019. percent drop in the closing share price.

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How to mitigate insolvency risk

Future CFO

Declining profitability: For example, are your sales lower or your cost of goods sold higher? Poor interest coverage ratio: This shows operating profits may not be able to cover interest expenses. Can you go to the capital markets or turn to your line of credit to raise money if need be? Weakened balance sheet.

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APAC capital markets during the COVID-19 crisis

Future CFO

FutureCFO spoke to three executives for their expressed views on the impact of COVID-19 on the Asia Pacific’s (APAC) credit market: Mike San Diego, chief financial officer at JK Capital Finance; James Ponsford, regional director & growth leader, Credit Solutions, Asia at Aon; and Matthew Wells, APAC regional commercial director for Euler Hermes.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train reads: • How four different types of stock market participants are thinking about 2024 : Financial pros are bullish, but consumers not so much. Wired ) • Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows. It was likely closer to 5 percent. (

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Breach of Trust: Decoding the Banking Crisis

Musings on Markets

The overarching questions for us all are whether this crisis will spread to the rest of the economy and market, as it did in 2008, and how banking as a business, at least in the US, will be reshaped by this crisis, and while I am more a dabbler than an expert in banking, I am going to try answering those questions.

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A Key Task for Finance – Measuring and Managing Customer Profitability

Planful

To remain competitive, companies must determine how to keep customers longer, grow them into bigger customers, make them more profitable, serve them more efficiently, and acquire more profitable customers. Today in many companies there’s a wide gap between the CFO’s function and the marketing and sales function on this issue.