Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

Federal Reserve Database (FRED) Note that the ups and downs of oil and copper not only follow the same time pattern, but closely resemble what stocks were doing over the same periods, but the changes are more exaggerated (up and down) with oil than with copper. against developed market currencies.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

An Optimizing Tool In my second and third data posts for this year, I chronicled the effects of rising interest rates and risk premiums on costs of equity and capital. Furthermore, do they optimize they debt ratios to deliver the lowest hurdle rates. Do companies optimize financing mix?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Railways were this revolutionary technology that was going to change the world, going to change civilization, the speed with which people — roughly at the same time, remember Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley — RITHOLTZ: Sure. RITHOLTZ: Fred Schwed, right? Is that who wrote the — CHANCELLOR: Fred Schwed.

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