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

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Technology shares are leading losses after Facebook parent Meta Platforms surprised investors with a bigger-than-expected profit drop. billion profit in the recent quarter. Eli Lilly reported quarterly profit and revenue that beat forecasts. Apple and Tesla were also down. ConocoPhillips reported a $2.6 Chart of the Day.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Institutional Investor ) • Retail Group Retracts Startling Claim About ‘Organized’ Shoplifting : The National Retail Federation had said that nearly half of the industry’s $94.5 Wired ) • Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows. It was likely closer to 5 percent. (

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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. Shorten your supply chains and avoid concentration in one geographic region. Weakened balance sheet.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Nov 5-6) 2022

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Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. In April, Charles Schwab introduced its Schwab Personalized Indexing platform, available to advisors and retail clients with a $100,000 account minimum. He can be reached at [email protected].

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APAC capital markets during the COVID-19 crisis

Future CFO

We expect Credit and Political Risk Insurance (CPRI) to play an important and increasing role in supporting lenders in mitigating risk, overcoming concentration issues and improving capital adequacy. Reality is showing us that profitability is no longer a target, and in the absence of such, how can we be assured of liquidity.

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A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business!

Musings on Markets

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.

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

While companies that were listed for much of the twentieth century waited until they had established business models to go public, the dot-com boom saw the listing of young companies with growth potential but unformed business models (translating into operating losses), and that trend has continued and accelerated in this century.

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