CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

To start the year, I returned to a ritual that I have practiced for thirty years, and that is to take a look at not just market changes over the last year, but also to get measures of the financial standing and practices of companies around the world. I was a believer in big data and crowd wisdom, well before those terms were even invented.

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Marketing Valuation Corporate Finance Currencies 130

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

As stock and bond markets went through these gyrations, it should come as no surprise that the same forces were playing out in other markets as well. Currencies : A currency serves three functions. There are a range of items that fall into this grouping from fine art to sports memorabilia to precious metals.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 9, 2023

By the start of 2022, the window for early action had closed and for much of this year, inflation has been the elephant in the room, driving markets and forcing central banks to be reactive, and its presence has already induced me to write three posts on its impact. Louis (FRED).

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

By the start of 2022, the window for early action had closed and for much of this year, inflation has been the elephant in the room, driving markets and forcing central banks to be reactive, and its presence has already induced me to write three posts on its impact.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

To start the year, I returned to a ritual that I have practiced for thirty years, and that is to take a look at not just market changes over the last year, but also to get measures of the financial standing and practices of companies around the world. I was a believer in big data and crowd wisdom, well before those terms were even invented.

Valuation 91

Valuation Corporate Finance Currencies Finance 91

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms. So, why bother?

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Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

In pursuit of an answer to that question, I used company-specific data from Value Line, one of the earliest entrants into the investment data business, to compute an industry average. After all, I had no plans on becoming a data service, and making them available to others cost me absolutely nothing.

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