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1st Quarter 2024 Economic And Market Outlook: Potential Increased Volatility, Threats To Economic Growth, And Equity Markets

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Notably, the work-from-home movement has resulted in a dramatic drop in office valuations that could lead to a whole host of issues, including lending constraints in the banking sector, which is already sitting on a mountain of unrealized losses on Treasuries and mortgages.

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Inflation and its Ripple Effects!

CFO News Room

The treasury curve became steeper, but only at the shortest end of the spectrum, with the slope rising for the 2-year, relative to the 3-month, but not at all, when comparing the 10-year to the 2-year rate.

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HighRadius Hires 20-Year Finance Vet Scott Buxton As CFO

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Buxton previously worked for cloud application monitoring platform Datadog as VP of finance, where he led the company to a $9 billion valuation and a current market capitalization of upwards of $25 billion, with the number of employees growing from 100 to 2,000 during his tenure, the release says.

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Data Update 3: Inflation and its Ripple Effects!

Musings on Markets

The treasury curve became steeper, but only at the shortest end of the spectrum, with the slope rising for the 2-year, relative to the 3-month, but not at all, when comparing the 10-year to the 2-year rate.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

And you had to take on significant duration risk and credit risk just to earn a couple percentage points. DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk about that, because that gap in valuation has persisted for a long time. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

But there are so many tools at your disposal, and let alone how much duration you’re taking, how much interest, how much credit risk you’re taking, illiquidity, et cetera. And how do you make the decision, I’m not comfortable with this credit risk relative to the return it’s going to throw off?

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

The challenge is unlike the S&P 500, hedge funds sit in a box that has underlying credit risk from prime brokers. So the credit markets froze. So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?” What’s the valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right.