CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Lenders may be the first to worry, when there is a crisis that puts their payments at risk, but equity investors are often with them, pushing down stock prices and pushing up equity risk premiums. For investors trying to recapture their footing in the aftermath, there are multiple questions that need answers. as of March 16, 2022.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

If you’re interested in venture capital, in technology, in how to think about early stage investing, well, strap yourself in, this is a great one. ALBERT WENGER, MANAGING DIRECTOR, UNION SQUARE VENTURES: Well, I fell in love with computers very early on when I was a young teenager. You have quite a fascinating history.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

The price tags attached to the deals were reported as $3.7 The Blackstone/CVC consortium of funds first approached Paysafe in early May, according to published reports and a company statement. The company also said its largest shareholder, Old Mutual Global Investors at 10.3 billion and $470 million, respectively.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2018

Beyond answering the demands of social media users who crave celebrity and influencer fashions, Choosy seeks to solve another problem: making expensive designer fashions available to the masses without the big price tags. Fashion Through Social Tagging.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

After shares of Symantec plunged last week following its disclosure of an internal investigation over concerns flagged by an ex-employee, the company said it would provide information about the probe in an investor call on Monday (May 14). That deal came with a price tag of $4.65 Symantec said it alerted the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

The latest is global consulting firm McKinsey, whose new report has put a price tag on the potential of blockchain: $110 billion. The rest, researchers found, are early investors in the technology, partnering with peers and blockchain innovators, and are moving towards internal pilots of these technologies.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

The pans come with graffiti-styled labels on the bottom and plantable paper tags embedded with basil seeds. That choice was intentional by the founders — as their early polling of chefs indicated that at the end of the day, it was the type and design that seemed to get the highest loyalty rating. The brand grew 11.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

UnitedHealth reported that the cost of caring for pandemic patients accounted for roughly 11 percent of care activity in Q4, a 6 percent jump from July to September, CFO John Rex told investors. But how that change will play out, and whether traditional or up-and-coming entities will lead it, remains to be seen.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Equity Markets and Equity Risk Premiums Lenders may be the first to worry, when there is a crisis that puts their payments at risk, but equity investors are often with them, pushing down stock prices and pushing up equity risk premiums. as of March 16, 2022.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

The FinTech firm — which offers software that enables sound-wave-based payments — is used by investors such as Amazon , Reliance Capital and Mastercard. Use cases that might see early adoption, including digital toll collections, are slated to reach $2 billion, the CEO said. The latter will deploy sound-based contactless payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

At the upper edge of the spectrum, students can be looking at a ~$330,000 total price tag for an education at an elite private college. And with price tags that large, there is going to be a generation of students who are by necessity going to be seeking private student loans. New Financing — New Growth.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

In addition, separate research by IT security firm ZeroFOX found 53,000 occurrences of online scams related to Fortnite between early September and early October of last year. Mastercard got tagged with a $648.3 Capital One’s Earnings Flub. billion expected by analysts. Mastercard and Google Fend Off Fines.

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JUNE 28, 2017

The Bikyni innovation pares down to simple, stylish bathing suits without pumped up price tags. “With Bikyni, I’ve taken the time early on to learn about the Bikyni girl, understand what she wants and how to connect with her,” she noted.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

And then the biggest thing in the credit card business in the late 90s or early 90s, those who were great at data and data analytics dominated the industry and essentially put others out of it. RITHOLTZ: So were you — in the early days, it was mutual funds it was SMAs, what were you guys doing? JOHNSON: For sure.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Finally, Charlie Munger's passing at the age of ninety-nine brought to a close one of the most storied key person teams of all time at Berkshire Hathaway, and generations of investors who had attached a premium to the company because of that team's presence mourned. Key Person: Who, what and why?

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This thriving market has led to significant competition among investors and venture capital to invest in and acquire SaaS companies of any size or stage of growth. Seeking out investors is another key point in your company’s long-term growth, where the right valuation can make all the difference. Finances not your strong suit?

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2019

That device is still in the working prototype phase and is forecast to have a six-figure price tag when it hits the market. The robots are small, but the funding raised was not – the little robotics firm brought in $200 million in venture capital from some very well-known Silicon Valley investors like Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Walmart, on the other hand, managed to notch out analysts’ predictions for earnings, but in a way more conducive to building investor confidence: Sales are up, earnings are up and guidance for the year had gotten an upward revision, despite the big cash layout coming soon for the purchase of Jet.com. Walmart will buy Jet.com for $3.3

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. Trading through our CTAS and Quant and discretionary and private markets, reaching investors all over the world. GREW: It entered my mind when very early on I found myself in a position where I was looking at brief that had come to me. And that’s our early goal.

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AUGUST 21, 2016

Goldman Sachs — with its long track record of being the investment bank of choice for elite investors, corporations and governments — is probably not the first financial institution that comes to mind when thinking about touching the “common man.”. Goldman Sachs Goes Middle Class. Twenty U.S. and Canada.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. BRYANT: We should be starting as early as possible. These things you need to access banking, financial services, market economy, investors. You don’t do any dirty work.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

The foot traffic is waning, and thus, so is investor enthusiasm. After early morning rumors started swirling that Ant Financial Services Group (which operates as an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding) was considering acquiring MoneyGram — within hours the news was confirmed, and even had a price tag on it.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Perhaps the looming $999 price tag has something to do with it? In this way, the grain of salt was swallowed and investors have seemingly moved on. The same consideration — that this may be prudent management — shows up in the stock. The shares have rebounded as noted before. We need to triangulate some other sources.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So late ‘80s, early ‘90s, you’re a VP for an advisory firm that leads some sovereign debt restructurings and transactions in both South America and Central America. RITHOLTZ: You mentioned earlier that the late ‘80s, early ‘90s were very different than the state of EM debt today. How has the industry changed?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

She was an investor. And then early in law school, I had a professor, an adjunct professor, I think some of the best professors in college are adjunct professors. HAMBURGER: When the minority investor or the capital partner — RITHOLTZ: They get paid first. The first one is we’re in the early innings, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And it’s turned into a $100 million business with incredible investors and just a huge brand on the internet. How do you go out and find investors? CLYMER: He actually purchased it, he purchased it in the early 90s. So people that would — RITHOLTZ: So I’m guessing eBay was pretty big in the early days, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You know, it was the early nineties and, you know, it was hard to find, you know, jobs. So if you’re watching sentiment, it’s the surveys, you know, the, the investor’s intelligence survey, bull Bear and correction. What investors are doing? That means investors are fearful. What are they telling us?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

He launches Wallstrip in the early 2000s and before you know it, he’s in the middle of a bidding war with a bunch of different people, theStreet.com and CBS wanting to buy it. He was a pre-IPO investor in companies like Facebook and Twitter. I know him from Lindzonpalooza from his early media work. Obviously the weather.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. And you know, they had this vision of understanding that ETFs, which at that point, were still largely institutional vehicles, early 2000s, right? And my answer was, well, I get all my information about this from Nadig.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2020

Among its many provisions, the measure would provide up to $6,000 per household in stimulus payments, extend $600 extra jobless benefits through early 2021 and give states and cities federal aid to make up for lost local tax revenues. percent of them saying they’re “very” or “extremely” interested in doing so.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It was a unique opportunity at the time, because if you go back to that early nineties period, you know, commodities were somewhat in a bull market. 00:26:37 And that was done in the early, you know, the early two thousands. You know, my days would start early in the morning with the presidential daily brief.

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