Musings on Markets: Sovereign Scores, Default Danger and Markets: The Moody’s Downgrade Aftermath!

[ad_1]  I used to be on a household trip in August 2011 after I obtained an electronic mail from a journalist asking me what I believed in regards to the S&P rankings downgrade for the US. Since I keep blissfully unaware of most information tales and issues associated to markets when I’m on the seaside, … Read more

Musings on Markets: Knowledge Replace 8 for 2025: Debt, Taxes and Default

[ad_1]     There’s a motive that each faith inveighs in opposition to borrowing cash, pushed by a historical past of individuals and companies, borrowing an excessive amount of after which paying the worth, however a particular vitriol is reserved for the lenders, not the debtors, for encouraging this habits. On the similar time, in … Read more

Musings on Markets: Return on Fairness, Earnings Yield and Market Effectivity: Again to Fundamentals!

[ad_1]     Whereas I used to be engaged on my final two knowledge updates for 2025, I acquired sidetracked, as I’m wont to do, by two occasions. The primary was the response that I acquired to my final knowledge replace, the place I regarded on the profitability of companies, and particularly at how a … Read more

Musings on Markets: Information Replace 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro

[ad_1]     Within the first 5 posts, I’ve appeared on the macro numbers that drive international markets, from rates of interest to danger premiums, however it isn’t my most well-liked habitat. I spend most of my time within the far much less rarefied air of company finance and valuation, the place companies attempt to resolve … Read more