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A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!

Musings on Markets

In general, higher and more volatile inflation has negative effects on all financial assets, from stocks to corporate bonds to treasury bonds, and neutral to positive effects on gold, collectibles and real assets. The former is short hand for the small cap premium and the latter is the proxy for the value factor in returns.

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Country Risk: A 2022 Mid-year Update!

Musings on Markets

In my last post, I noted that concerns about inflation have played a big role in pushing up the US ten-year treasury bond rate from 1.51% on Jan 1, 2022, to 3.02% on June 30, 2022. Country Risk: Equity Risk For equity investors, the price of risk is captured by the equity risk premium, and equity risk premiums will vary across countries.

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Discounted-Cash-Flow-Analysis: Your Complete Guide with Examples

Valutico

But here, we use what interest we could get from an alternative investment in the market, called the Market Rate. Discount Factor (using Market Rate: r=10%). But first, a quick aside, which you can feel free to skip if you want to jump ahead: Why Do We Use the Market Rate to Calculate the Discount Factor? B = Beta. (Rm

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Sales & Trading Exit Opportunities: The Top 10 Ways to Make Your Escape

Brian DeChesare

The problem is that you won’t develop the deal analysis, valuation, financial modeling , and market analysis skills these firms usually seek. Since most trading activity at banks now focuses on market-making , not discretionary trading, it’s more difficult to point to “your own” trade ideas.

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Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question!

Musings on Markets

In the first five posts, I have looked at the macro numbers that drive global markets, from interest rates to risk premiums, but it is not my preferred habitat. The second set of inputs are prices of risk, in both the equity and debt markets, with the former measured by equity risk premiums , and the latter by default spreads.

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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. Beta & Risk 1. Return on Equity 1.

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ISS Discusses the Latest in ESG and Stewardship Regulation

Reynolds Holding

The roadmap to upgrade market access to decision-useful nature-related data , published October 26, outlines medium- and long-term strategic goals to improve the nature data value chain.