CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Even the ratings agencies, normally slow to act, have been moving promptly, with Moody’s lowering Russia’s rating from Ba2 to B3 on March 3, from B3 to Ca on March 6 and from Ca to C on March 8, and Ukraine’s rating from B3 to Caa2 on March 4. Other ratings agencies have also taken similar actions.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Even the ratings agencies, normally slow to act, have been moving promptly, with Moody's lowering Russia's rating from Ba2 to B3 on March 3, from B3 to Ca on March 6 and from Ca to C on March 8, and Ukraine's rating from B3 to Caa2 on March 4. Other ratings agencies have also taken similar actions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Going clean and green is just about everyone’s favorite marketing tag line these days. Plus, Panera had to continue serving food up to customers at a rate they could afford. And for a certain high-spending segment of consumers, purity is an expectation in the good. We had a team of 10 people working on this, some for a decade.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

And then the other piece of that, And this was definitely fueled by low interest rates, but private equity, the fact is, companies can stay private longer. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. We’ve seen this massive change in rate regimes.

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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. Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. You have a high school graduation rate of over 90%. That allowed me to sell my business at a prime rate.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But the majority of them will then… I say we’ve got a booking rate of between…used to be 70% when I was the only one doing prospect calls, now it’s 63% now that we’ve spread them out a little bit. So that’s your booking rate, your close rate. And what is Help Scout doing? Mindy: Okay.

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Strategic Treasurer

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I think is useful to know is that small firms have seen a significant increase in fraud attempts at the rate of 2.3x Spending has gone up not at that rate, but we need to have better defenses to reduce the yield of the criminals. That’s a massive majority in the game that that type of spoofing is a number one element.

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