CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The Canadian sovereign CDS spread widened, but US and EU country spreads remained relatively stable.

Economics 130

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The Canadian sovereign CDS spread widened, but US and EU country spreads remained relatively stable.

Economics 100

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

He began in South America and Latin America, before investing in places like Russia and China and Turkey. It seems like you were built to trade distressed EM debt. Tell us what that experience was like during that period. RITHOLTZ: So you go from that onto Mother Merrill for three years, where you traded distressed EM.

Restructuring 61

Restructuring Investments Marketing Banking 61

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

The requirements for asset managers to have a bank were such that it would inhibit us a bit. And the other big one that was exciting for us was Clarion Partners, which now is an $82 billion, I think they were probably 45 at the time, $45 billion, real estate manager. Tell us the thinking behind acquiring Putnam.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 86

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

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And then, and then the, the funny thing about it was when, when I see those movies, both Boiler or Man Wolf of Wall Street, the script that they’re reading from is exactly the script that they gave us. And then volume surge, and then all of a sudden you’re trading sideways for a long period of time on less volume.

Marketing 61

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 61

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. RITHOLTZ: And Canada was a giant feeder into the US, Martin Short, go down the list of all the great comedians who came up. And Gulf War breaks out.

Leverage 112

Leverage Investments Valuation Finance 112

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. Tell us about what you did at Barclays. We track their behavior as they’re doing research using our data and analytics tools. Now tell us about what is tokenized financial investment?

Finance 108

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