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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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

Half of recent graduates were unable to find work when they left school during the recession, and the millennials’ formal unemployment rate ranged up to as high as 20 percent or 30 percent. Many found themselves facing joblessness, low wages and stagnant earnings trajectories over the following decade.

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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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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. RITHOLTZ: Unemployment? BRYANT: unemployment’s through the roof. RITHOLTZ: Right. What do you do?

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Strategic Treasurer

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I think as we all know and see there’s unemployment issues, while many of them have abated, there was this long period of heavy unemployment that bounced back. Some of the compensation on unemployment, created a dearth of workers in some areas. Now the economic ripples still continue. Budgets change, priorities change.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It’s about a 50% fail rate, something like that. I rely on our analysts ratings at the firm. And if you’re, if a stock’s building a big base and say the analysts are 90% sell ratings, and a lot of volume is surged down, you know, when the stock first declined to save $5 from 20, right. Maybe even more.

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