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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

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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How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience

Harvard Business

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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FOMC Minutes and Economic Projections: Dissent in Both Directions

MishTalk

However, several members judged that a reduction in asset purchases would likely soon be warranted , in light of the cumulative decline in unemployment since the September meeting and ongoing increases in private payrolls, which had increased their confidence in the outlook for sustained improvement in labor market conditions. Unemployment.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

oil supply may be enough on its own to meet all of this year’s growth in global oil demand. output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy. Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both.

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Nifty-Fifty Becomes Fab-Five; Return of the "Four Horseman"; Ozone Layer

MishTalk

Congratulations, you went ahead in 2014. New Four Horseman On January 6 2012, GeekWire proclaimed Meet the new ‘four horsemen’ of tech: Sorry, Microsoft, Dell, Cisco and Intel. It opened the year 2000 at $50.40. You are seriously underwater and will never catch up. Dell is now private. Intel opened the year 2000 at $29.65.

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ECB's €40bn Stimulus Gamble: ECB Pulls Out Bazooka, Cuts Rates, Buys Assets; Will this Stimulate Lending?

MishTalk

Interventions under these programmes will start in October 2014. The detailed modalities of these programmes will be announced after the Governing Council meeting of 2 October 2014. in August 2014, after 0.4% The September 2014 ECB staff macroeconomic projections for the euro area foresee annual HICP inflation at 0.6%

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

From 2010 to 2014, Chicago’s general obligation bond deals included over $235 million of capitalized interest, simply as a means for the city to avoid servicing its debt in the short term. Of course, Chicago would also have to meet the other eligibility criteria. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test.