CFO News Room

JANUARY 23, 2023

In a post at the start of 2021 , I argued that while stocks entered the year at elevated levels, especially on historic metrics (such as PE ratios), they were priced to deliver reasonable returns, relative to very low risk free rates (with the treasury bond rate at 0.93% at the start of 2021).

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 19, 2022

In a post at the start of 2021 , I argued that while stocks entered the year at elevated levels, especially on historic metrics (such as PE ratios), they were priced to deliver reasonable returns, relative to very low risk free rates (with the treasury bond rate at 0.93% at the start of 2021). The year that was.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, I am not a political expert, with solutions to offer that will bring the violence to an end, and I don’t think that you have come here to read about my views on humanity. The graph below looks at average spreads, by region, before and after the hostilities started: Change in Sovereign CDS, by Region.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

However, I am not a political expert, with solutions to offer that will bring the violence to an end, and I don't think that you have come here to read about my views on humanity. Russia was undoubtedly a military superpower, with its vast arsenal of nuclear weapons and army, but economically, it has never punched that weight.

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