Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

ON WEDNESDAY November 23rd, an auction of German government bonds (known as “Bunds”) managed to sell only €3.6 Thirdly, European banks are currently focused on building their balance sheets not on lending. Business Strategy. Management Consulting. in Economics. How could Dexia fail? Categories.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Efficiency ratio The efficiency ratio measures effective cost management and operational efficiency, and is defined as non-interest expenses divided by revenue. Net interest income (which is generally balance sheet driven) declined to approximately 50% of revenues in recent years from representing almost 80% of revenues in 1980.

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MishTalk

MAY 20, 2014

Yesterday, former fed chair Ben Bernanke said " No Need for Fed to Shrink Balance Sheet ". The Federal Reserve does not need to shrink its $4 trillion-plus balance sheet by even "a dime" for it to normalize monetary policy when the time comes, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said on Monday.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Merits of Not Shrinking the Balloon When the Fed first launched QE, they stated they had the "tools" necessary to shrink their ballooning balance sheet. Once the Federal Reserve lifts interest rates from near zero, likely this week, the focus will turn to the other legacy of the crisis-era policies: the Fed's swollen balance sheet.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Over the last few decades, countless risky financial products were sold to investors using harmless sounding terms like “credit default swap”, “mortgage backed security”, “special purpose vehicle” and “off-balance sheet financing”. Business Strategy. Management Consulting. Graduate Consulting Group. Categories.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

I see many organizations succeed better when the less the manager knows, the better the team works. And, when there's too little manager-to-team transparency, the efforts become much more difficult or fail. That's because the managers don't explain: Why this product. The managers don't explain the purpose.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2016

Fed Balance Sheet vs. S&P 500 I was playing around with some ideas on the St Louis Fed "Fred" database and came up with this. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Central Bank Policy Rates Current Rates Bank of England: 0.50% Bank of Japan: 0.10% Fed: 0.00%-0.25% (currently 0.14%) ECB: 0.05% Central Bank Balance Sheets Three Questions Other than asset bubbles, what do we have to show for this? When do asset sheet balances approaching 100% of GDP matter?

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Inquiring minds are monitoring the Fed''s Balance Sheet. One more week like this and the FED balance sheet will be $1 trillion more than last year at this time. Three rounds of so-called quantitative easing have enlarged the Fed’s balance sheet to almost $3.8 click on chart for sharper image.

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MishTalk

MARCH 28, 2014

reader Dave, a friend, noted that as the Fed jacked up its balance sheet, velocity has mirrored the curve to the downside. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

From financial planning to operational upkeep, implementing the right strategies during fall can help businesses stay ahead of the curve and ensure sustained success. Find out here about fall business maintenance strategies. Get tips from business experts here on business management for the fall season.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Teams need to figure out how to manage their WIP, collaborate with the customer, and deliver something small every day. That's a cultural change to self-managing teams.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

On September 4, ECB President pulled out a financial bazooka including a pledge to build up the ECB''s balance sheet by another €1 trillion. In this case, the stench on Greek bank balance sheets will not go away. Instead, stench will also appear on the balance sheet of the ECB.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Current Liabilities Cash Much Smaller Than You Think I don't often dive into balance sheets, but did so after reading a Market-Watch opinion by Brett Arends. billion in “off-balance-sheet” liabilities. If “off-balance-sheet” is not included in my totals, then subtract another $31.5 For example, he notes $31.5

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MishTalk

MARCH 19, 2014

The Fed’s tapering merely slows the growth of its balance sheet. The rarely admitted truth, however, is that there is no need for central banks’ balance sheets to shrink. They could stay permanently larger; and, for some countries, permanently bigger central-bank balance sheets will help reduce public-debt burdens.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Question: Mr Draghi, you said that the new measures and the TLTROs will have a sizeable impact on your balance sheet. So all this makes a precise estimate of the impact that these transactions will have on our balance sheet very complicated, especially at the stage when none of these operations have as yet been undertaken.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

bolivare-per-USD rate, thus the near-$300 million charge P&G now expects to incur on its third quarter balance sheet. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. certain P&G products — are exchanged. bolivares per one U.S.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

trillion balance sheet is leveraged nearly 49-to-1. As a group, these three banks have some €4 trillion in assets on their balance sheets, supported by €129.3 link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. of its assets—which means its €1.6

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Bank’s Income Statement It’s important to note that banks have diverse product offerings and client types, and the reporting of business lines such as retail banking, wholesale banking, and wealth management can vary between different banks. Jason Oh is a Senior Associate at Strategy& with a focus on financial services.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Having already cut interest rates to record lows and saying they can go no lower, Draghi is now focused on boosting the ECB’s balance sheet. We are quite confident that the impact on our balance sheet size will be adequate, will be significant, will be sizable,” Draghi said. trillion] more than the current level.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 8, 2013

In Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. What about foreign central bank assets, especially China and Japan?

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The results of the ECB’s examination of balance sheets worth €22tn, known as the Asset Quality Review, will require the 130 lenders who took part in the exercise to adjust the value of their assets in their accounts or prudential requirements. The 130 banks account for 81.6 per cent of all eurozone assets.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 6, 2013

Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? The feds balance sheet doesnt reflect it. The balance sheet was up $720 billion from Aug 1, 2012 to Aug 1, 2013 ($309B in treasuries and $393B in MBS) but that is only $60B per month. Feds Balance Sheet. QE History.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Rates continued to surge on Monday, however, in China’s money markets — a key source of short-term funding for commercial banks and also for financial institutions engaged in risky, off-balance-sheet shadow lending. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

I was assigned to a typical strategy engagement – should client X selling product Y increase sales in market Z? We repeated our request a week later, but they only provided a balance sheet from the previous year. His advice was specific to consulting, but applicable to other areas of business too.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 17, 2014

This is not necessarily a problem if the decline was expected because a business is sustained from cashflow, not profit, and long term growth can be pursued through capital appreciation, which shows up on the balance sheet and not on the profit and loss statement. Profit equals revenue minus cost. yep, so far so good).

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Many consulting, corporate strategy, and corporate development roles require the interviewee to go through an M&A case study. If there are debts owed by each organization, then the M&A process may increase the total balance sheet debt of the combined company. Conclusion. Image: Pixabay.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The answer to that question is that we no longer have things like 20-year and 30-year mortgages because banks are not going to put that type of mortgage on their balance sheets. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 12, 2023

Review income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow to identify areas that impact profitability. Ensure these goals align with your long-term financial strategy. Cost Reduction Strategies : Implement cost reduction strategies based on the consulting service’s recommendations. Adjust strategies as needed.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 22, 2013

Inflation Benefit 3 (?): "Balance sheet recession" might go away! Balance sheet recession" might go away!? We have a balance sheet recession precisely because of an inflationary asset bubble gone bust. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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MishTalk

JULY 30, 2014

That’s because it shifts some pollution — and the burden for cleaning it — onto another other country’s balance sheet. It’s a global shell game that threatens to undermine Obama’s strategy of reducing the gases blamed for global warming and reveals a little-discussed side effect of countries acting alone on a global problem.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Draghiz e: "The test is credible because the ultimate purpose of it is to restore or strengthen private sector confidence in the soundness of the banks, in the quality of their balance sheets" Mish : The test is credible because we say it is.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2014

See above link for charts on Russia money supply growth and Russia''s central bank balance sheet. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2014

And after decades of fighting deflation with more debt hoping to spur inflation (an amazingly counterproductive strategy), Japan is caught in a trap of its own making. Japan wants inflation but it''s balance sheet is so bloated that a rise in interest rates of a mere 2% or so would consume 100% of government revenue.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The European Central Bank’s first offer of cheap four-year loans has fallen short of expectations, dealing a blow to president Mario Draghi’s hope of sustaining the eurozone’s ailing economy by expanding the central bank’s balance sheet.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 16, 2014

Listen to what Ignazio Angeloni, head of the ECB’s financial stability directorate says today: “ At first sight the 6 percent target looks manageable and less ambitious than what people might have expected. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

These services offer a wealth of expertise, strategies, and solutions aimed at increasing profitability. This includes scrutinizing income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements. They assist in developing competitive strategies to capitalize on market opportunities and gain a competitive edge.

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