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Japan Megabanks’ Strategic Share Sale Marks Big Priority Shift

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billion by March 2025. With the Japanese economy sluggish, Wu points out, the TSE has become concerned about the low price-to-book ratios of its listed companies, including banks; half of Prime members traded below book last year. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group said it plans to sell $2.2

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

In my second data update post from the start of this year , I looked at US equities in 2022, with the S&P 500 down almost 20% during the year and the NASDAQ, overweighted in technology, feeling even more pain, down about a third, during the year. US Equities in 2023: Into the Weeds! that was lost last year.

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Buy the Dip: The Draw and Dangers of Contrarian Investing!

Musings on Markets

For the market, it is often built on papers (or books) that look at the historical data on what equity markets have delivered as returns over long periods, relative to what you would have made investing elsewhere.

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Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics!

Musings on Markets

While I was working on my last two data updates for 2025, I got sidetracked, as I am wont to do, by two events. With these characteristics, the accounting balance sheets for these companies will be identical right after they start up, and the book value of equity will be $60 million in each company.

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Data Update 3 for 2025: The times they are a'changin'!

Musings on Markets

In my first two data posts for 2025, I looked at the strong year that US equities had in 2024, but a very good year for the overall market does not always translate into equivalent returns across segments of the market. In this post, I will remain focused on US equities, but I will break them into groupings, looking for differences.