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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

Thus, looking at only the companies in the S&P 500 may give you more reliable data, with fewer missing observations, but your results will reflect what large market cap companies in any sector or industry do, rather than what is typical for that industry.

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Commodity Hedge Funds: The Most Lucrative “Hidden Gem” in Finance?

Brian DeChesare

Regional market dynamics are important here, as are your relationships with the buyers, sellers, and freighters. A Mixed Physical and Paper Trade You could earn a higher profit from this same trade if you bet on market prices first. But you could be wrong, so you also decide to hedge your risk by buying futures.

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

In corporate finance and investing, which are areas that I work in, I find myself doing double takes as I listen to politicians, market experts and economists making statements about company and market behavior that are fairy tales, and data is often my weapon for discerning the truth. EBIT & EBITDA multiple s 5.