CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

The pie chart below, provides a measure of the gross domestic product of Russia and Ukraine, relative to the rest of the world: While Russia’s share of the global economy is small, it does have a significant standing in the natural resource space, as a leading producer and exporter of oil/gas, coal and nickel, among other commodities.

Economics 130

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 130

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

The pie chart below, provides a measure of the gross domestic product of Russia and Ukraine, relative to the rest of the world: While Russia's share of the global economy is small, it does have a significant standing in the natural resource space, as a leading producer and exporter of oil/gas, coal and nickel, among other commodities.

Economics 100

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Of course, and with small businesses, especially those built around personal services (a doctor or plumber’s practice), it is part of the valuation process, where the key person is valued or at least priced and incorporated into valuation. Who is a key person?

Valuation 113

Valuation Profit and Loss Entertainment Investments 113

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And as a result, if we think the price is too high, we can just find something else. There’s just no prices for them. They’re pretty reasonably priced these days, about 16 times for the S&P 500. 8 billion, $15 billion per fund.

Valuation 118

Valuation Investments Marketing Technology 118

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

And that seems to be where indexing really took off and where people became a lot more price sensitive. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. How can you even think about making an investment in the Middle East on anything other than oil? So that was happening a bit.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 86

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 86

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. GREW: And at that point Lehman share price had its first sort of crumbs moment. RITHOLTZ: I — I have been looking forward to this for a while. And when we first booked you, you were like a junior analyst. That has to be a little bit of a surreal experience.

Investments 61

Investments Finance Construction Technology 61

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Bank of America decided they wanted to sell their branch in Lima, Peru, and the price tag was a million dollars. And they go, you know, you told me that there were no other jobs out there, that we didn’t have to pay this price. Oil and gas on one hand, and you know, importers of energy on another hand.

Restructuring 61

Restructuring Investments Marketing Banking 61