Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In this post, I will argue that there are good reasons for Airbnb's IPO timing, and make my first attempt at valuing this latest entrant into public markets. By the start of 2020, Airbnb had already become one of the largest players in its market of vacation and travel rentals, a sign of success, but also a crimp on future growth.

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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. For an investment to be risk free then, it has to meet two conditions.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

directly via email: Resources Featured In This Episode: Looking for sample client service calendars, marketing plans, and more? And we’re going to talk about what’s going on in the markets, briefly talk about the portfolio. So, last year, valuations were high, interest rates were low. Cean: Thanks, Michael.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

I didn’t know a whole lot about markets or stocks. ” But I really had an interest in trying to work directly in markets. So I worked at a private equity firm, that middle market private equity firm Yale had money with. SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

It was that era’s version of must see TV on the subject of, of the market. That was the great bull market. I mean, he was essentially market timer, for a lack of a a better word. 00:11:43 [Speaker Changed] And one of the more rare successful market times 00:11:47 [Speaker Changed] Unbelievably successful.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. It was an era where, you know, first of all, the markets were really inefficient, right? TROPIN: So it was very fertile to do what we do because markets moved a lot. Commodity markets were moving a lot. It’s much better to be involved in trend following when markets are moving.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

So again, so it came back out to the market and it held on to all the pieces except Danaher. He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. What’s the most current data point that may not have filtered into the market? They’d say it’s a crap market.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There are few people in the world who understand the interrelationships between central banks, the economy, and markets like Bill Dudley does this, this is just a master class in, in understanding all the factors that affect everything from the economy to inflation, to the labor market, the housing market, and of course, federal Reserve policy.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And that gave me an opportunity to enter the job market. And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. But there’s entire segments now mostly in the smaller part of the market where there’s literally nobody paying any attention.

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