Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

It is surprising that ratings agencies did not classify the writedown as a default when you consider that S&P defines sovereign default as “the failure to meet interest or principal payments on the due date…contained in the original terms of the rated obligation when issued”.

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MishTalk

JULY 5, 2017

The Fed released the Minutes of June 13-14 FOMC meeting today. The Fed also firmed up its Balance Sheet Normalization Plans. The minutes show an overreliance on regional report soft data and consumer confidence measures instead of hard data measures. more…).

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In the previous article , we looked at how banks make money and how they must meet capital requirements. However, P/B has generally become a measure that is less useful than it was in the past since banks’ balance sheets are not as important as they used to be in determining earnings power. We will examine each in turn.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

But the deindustrialization of large swaths of the country over the past 40 years have shown the danger of just meeting that bare minimum. It’s a lot more than a healthy balance sheet, although that’s certainly a necessary—but not sufficient—precondition. What makes for a healthy company?

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. Experiment with the numbers on your organization’s balance sheet by going through a series of “what if?”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened. Indeed, the cold reality is that for most, progress is agonizingly slow. It takes a lot to succeed with data. The last element is defense , essentially minimizing risk.

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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. China’s banks are scrambling for short-term cash to meet month-, quarter- and year-end regulatory requirements.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 11, 2018

Experience has taught me that the art of good M&A requires a combination of careful research, emotional intelligence, and attention to detail that might otherwise get overlooked; due diligence requires more than a scan through boxes of contracts and reviewing the balance sheet.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

” The reply he got was like a cold shower: “Management is delusional about their long-term prospects,” said the investor, adding, “Every time we meet … it truly shocks me how far behind it is and how slow they have been to grasp the trends of the industry.”

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 21, 2023

This includes analyzing a company’s financial statements, such as its income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. This may include writing research reports, giving presentations, and participating in conference calls or meetings.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 20, 2023

A Sales Meeting with an Executive is Always High Stakes Solution sellers who get a sales meeting with a target company’s executive consistently close more complex deals than those who sell at lower levels. Financials: income statement, balance sheet, and key ratio trends ?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

oil supply may be enough on its own to meet all of this year’s growth in global oil demand. Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. This unpredictability may only intensify as the world’s oil markets continue to adjust to shifting realities.

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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. per cent until late 2018 so long as they meet targets for lending to businesses.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Think back to your last off-site meeting. Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. You and the rest of your team likely poured over reports and spreadsheets, facts and figures.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 8, 2014

Inquiring minds are reading Minutes of the December 17-18 FOMC Meeting to see what the Fed is thinking. Investors appeared to read the economic data releases over the intermeeting period as better than had been expected and therefore as raising the odds that the FOMC might decide to reduce the pace of asset purchases at its December meeting.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The detailed modalities of these programmes will be announced after the Governing Council meeting of 2 October 2014. The newly decided measures, together with the targeted longer-term refinancing operations which will be conducted in two weeks, will have a sizeable impact on our balance sheet.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

Walter Thompson Company for $566 million in 1987 and Ogilvy for $864 million in 1989 — big acquisitions that stretched the company’s balance sheet. You meet the bar on this lever if you are among the top 20% in your industry in your ratio of capital spending to sales. So WPP acquired the ad agencies J.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

New York Fed president William Dudley expects the Fed to proceed with its asset reduction plan at the September FOMC meeting. trillion balance sheet at its Sept. 19-20 meeting in Washington while keeping rates on hold amid a spate of disappointingly weak readings on inflation. percent to 1.5 percent.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Also recall that Greek debt was restructured twice to meet those targets. The vote sets the scene for a tense meeting when troika representatives return to Athens this month. Here are a couple of key details: Greece has €320 billion in sovereign debt. Greece''s debt-to-GDP ratio is 174%. because it can''t and won''t.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. Of course, the CEO and the chair (or lead director) sit down amicably and select the items for each board meeting. This requires more than asking “tough” questions at the board meeting that managers can anticipate. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2021

Flush with cash, a monopoly producer would have a strong enough balance sheet to invest in improving product quality, developing new products, expanding into new markets, undertaking ambitious moonshot projects, and paying the full cost of cleaning up environmental pollution. Deadweight loss.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 30, 2020

Or, if you’re sick of being cooped up and simply want to talk, give me a call or suggest we meet for a walking coffee (at a safe distance). I’ve also heard a lot of PE firms are telling their operating companies to use the lines of credit to strengthen their balance sheets cash position so consider this.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Third, they’re focused on optimizing what I’ll call the human capital balance sheet, making sure their workforce dollars are creating the right kind of impact in the way that their workforce is showing up day in and day out in the workplace. We don’t have an intranet at Salesforce, we use apps.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

If you persist in using “resource” instead of humans, you allow the language of the balance sheet to drive your management decisions. How you build products and services that meet the strategic needs. Too many managers have been trained to talk about “resources” instead of humans. That's wrong.

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Free Agent CFO

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Meet Susan. The balance sheet is dull and boring with almost no debt. It’s one of those balance sheets that lacks drama. The majority of the CFOs I meet are past-based CFOs. The Past-based CFO. Susan is a brilliant strategist. She’s been a CFO for 7 years. They buy 1-2 competitors every year.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2021

I told him we would not meet in person until he talked to his wife about it. Have a strong balance sheet. On our first call I asked what his wife thought about it and was told they hadn’t discussed it. On our second call I asked again and got the same answer. Guess what? We never met. Show profit, no matter what your CPA says.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 2016

It will be necessary to review and therefore possibly reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in March,” said Draghi. [In ECB Inflation Mandate Please note whose inflation mandate Draghi is desperate to meet: " our mandate ". His final comment of the hour-long conference? “We We don’t give up.”

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

This means that the foreign currency reserves are simply the asset side of a balance sheet against which there are liabilities. China’s broadest measure of new credit almost doubled in August from the previous month in a sign leaders are committed to meeting economic goals even at the cost of adding financial risks.

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1 to 1

JULY 29, 2022

By 2025, smart workflows and seamless interactions among humans and machines will be as standard as the corporate balance sheet, and most employees will use data to optimize nearly every aspect of their work, predicts McKinsey & Company.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

New Four Horseman On January 6 2012, GeekWire proclaimed Meet the new ‘four horsemen’ of tech: Sorry, Microsoft, Dell, Cisco and Intel. Recall that EMC, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Juniper Networks were all regarded as must own for the long haul "gorillas". Oh, how the technology landscape has changed. Goldman's chief U.S.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

At the March meeting, the FOMC removed language from the statement that indicated that we would be patient in beginning the process of normalizing monetary policy. How high will short-term rates ultimately need to go?

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Of course, Chicago would also have to meet the other eligibility criteria. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test. Illinois law does not currently permit municipalities to do so, except under a provision that relates to units of governments with populations under 25,000.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2013

Inflation Benefit 3 (?): "Balance sheet recession" might go away! The housing bubble proves otherwise, so does the dotcom bubble, so does common sense, and so does Hello Noah, Meet Stephanie. Balance sheet recession" might go away!? Inflation Benefit 2: The federal government debt goes away.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 25, 2018

Moreover, balance sheet data from the Federal Reserve shows that the acquired assets have remained fairly consistent in value, indicating that the underlying assets were not altogether a lost cause. Post-failure balance sheets show that Lehmann Brothers actually had twenty billion dollars of assets in excess of its debts.

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