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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1 In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year. trillion during the course of the year.

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Formula 1 in Las Vegas: The Race That Hopes You Don’t Sleep

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The Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix 2023 is the start of a three-year contract with the city; although Formula 1 intends to support the race for at least 10 years and the entertainment and gaming hub of the U.S. that stay up to watch the event. It’s current market capitalization is approximately $15 billion.

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Enhancing Valuation through Employee Ownership: The Benefits of ESOPs for Start-ups

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Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) have become increasingly popular among start-ups as a way to enhance valuation and promote growth and retention. This article will explore the benefits of ESOPs for start-ups, including how they can be used to boost valuation, promote growth, and retain top talent.

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Enhancing Valuation through Employee Ownership: The Benefits of ESOPs for Start-ups

Equilest

Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) have become increasingly popular among start-ups as a way to enhance valuation and promote growth and retention. This article will explore the benefits of ESOPs for start-ups, including how they can be used to boost valuation, promote growth, and retain top talent.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

The Lead In To understand the market effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, we need to start with an assessment of the two countries, and their places in the global political, economic and market landscape, leading in.

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

Musings on Markets

I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis. Markets, as is their wont, live to surprise, and the first six months of 2023 has wrong-footed the experts (again).

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Data Update 1 for 2022: It is Moneyball Time!

Musings on Markets

To start the year, I returned to a ritual that I have practiced for thirty years, and that is to take a look at not just market changes over the last year, but also to get measures of the financial standing and practices of companies around the world. Happy New Year, and I hope that 2022 brings you good tidings!