Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

I spend most of my time in the far less rarefied air of corporate finance and valuation, where businesses try to decide what projects to invest in, and investors attempt to estimate business value.

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Global Finance

MAY 13, 2025

You werent going to be shipping anything from China to the US at 145%, David Roche, president of financial analysis firm Quantum Strategy in Singapore, told Global Finance. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insists the US-China talks are part of a broader strategy of economic decoupling for strategic necessities.

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Global Finance

MAY 13, 2025

You werent going to be shipping anything from China to the US at 145%, David Roche, president of financial analysis firm Quantum Strategy in Singapore, told Global Finance. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insists the US-China talks are part of a broader strategy of economic decoupling for strategic necessities.

Forecasting 81

Forecasting Economics Financial Analysis Treasury 81

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. What is a risk free investment? Why does the risk-free rate matter?

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2020

ST: I’m reporting to the CEO and board of directors, providing leadership in all aspects of business and finance, including strategic planning, annual business plan, rolling forecast, financial management, treasury, regulatory reporting, internal controls, taxation, and procurement.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

The first is that I do not have a macro focus, and my interests in macro variables occur only in the context of corporate finance or valuation issues. If you use it at their jobs as corporate finance or equity analysts, I am glad to take some of that burden off you, and I hope that you find more enjoyable uses for the time you save.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

A few of these variables are macro variables, but only those that I find useful in corporate finance and valuation, and not easily accessible in public data bases. Rather than replicate that data, my macroeconomic datasets relate to four key variables that I use in corporate finance and valuation.

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