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Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics!

Musings on Markets

The first was the response that I received to my last data update , where I looked at the profitability of businesses, and specifically at how a comparison of accounting returns on equity (capital) to costs of equity (capital) can yield a measure of excess returns.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

Barry Ritholtz

Lisa Shallet, chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley has had a number of fascinating roles in Wall Street, which is kind of amusing considering she had no interest in working on Wall Street, and yet she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein. I was traveling and on an airplane all the time. So I took the plunge, I quit.

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Investing Politics: Globalization Backlash and Government Disruption!

Musings on Markets

Blue-collar workers in developed markets : The flip side of the rise of China and other countries as manufacturing hubs, with lower costs of operation, has been the loss of manufacturing clout and jobs for the West, with factory workers in the United States, UK and Europe bearing the brunt of the cost.

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

Musings on Markets

Even a cursory examination of the the Nifty Fifty , the stocks that drove US equities upwards in the early 1970s, reveals companies like Coca Cola and Gilette, where brand name was a significant contributor to value, as well as pharmaceutical companies like Bristol-Myers and Pfizer, which derived a large portion of their value from patents.

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Managing Your Company’s Inventory

CFO Simplified

Think of restaurants, grocery stores, pharmaceutical companies. This requires more management because the risk of loss is greater, and the loss is instantaneous, and irrecoverable. In the pharmaceutical industry, drugs have a certain shelf life before they become unsafe, or their efficacy is reduced.

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Shares In Jumia Technologies Tumble After Q1 Results

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Shares in African eCommerce company Jumia Technologies took a dive on Monday (May 13) after Q1 losses were reported to be bigger than the year before, according to a report from Bloomberg. It also claimed that Jumia inflated its active merchant numbers and its active customer base. The company’s Q1 operating losses increased to 45.5

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Edible Barcodes Turn Sights On Counterfeit Goods

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When scanned, the barcodes provide information about where a product was manufactured, lot numbers, authorized distributors and safe use.”. In fact, medical items and pharmaceuticals are typically the most-seized products. Just take the online marketplace industry as one example of that problem. That’s an increase of 3.3