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”. If you enjoyed this post, get email updates (its free).

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2013

An exceptional bid by China’s central bank to curb soaring interest rates and relieve pressure on the financial system appeared to have come up short on Monday, as Chinese money market rates shrugged off the measure and continued to approach the crisis levels seen in June.

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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. Have accurate and consistent financial statements (this often means don’t blend your business and personal checkbooks). For buyers, the financial statements are the starting point but they’re a long way from the end.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

How can you boost your financial acumen? ” Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence , says that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.” Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence.

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MishTalk

APRIL 17, 2015

Alas, his brain actually went into reverse: Bernanke Open to Raising Inflation Target Fed Struggles to Meet. Bernanke also made the case in his presentation for keeping the Fed’s balance sheet big in the aftermath of the financial crisis. [Is Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. And pray tell, what credibility is that?]

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Lending Spree Short of Expectations Today the Financial Times reports ECB’s Lending Spree Short of Expectations. per cent until late 2018 so long as they meet targets for lending to businesses. With inflation as low as 0.4 The TLTROs allow banks to borrow at a rate just above the ECB’s main refinancing rate of 0.05

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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. A couple of participants thought that the marginal efficacy of the program was not declining, as evidenced by the substantial effects in financial markets in recent months of news about the likely path of purchases.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

More and more companies are embracing the idea that they might have a purpose that goes beyond their balance sheet, one that makes the world a better place in some way. ” Maybe a major technology snafu has left you without the materials you need for an important meeting. Ask: “What really matters most to me?

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. 28, as Bond Girl, she wrote a 1,650-word blog post for the Financial Times’ Alphaville on a proposed debtor-in-possession financing for bankrupt Detroit. She knows what she is talking about.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. His idea was to turn investor relations on its head by using regular meetings with top-class investors as something akin to due diligence.

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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. Good mergers aren’t easy to pull off.

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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. Financial markets boom when increasing numbers of investors want in. You and the rest of your team likely poured over reports and spreadsheets, facts and figures.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. George dissented because she viewed the ongoing improvement in labor market conditions and in the outlook as warranting a deliberate statement from the Committee at this meeting that the pace of its asset purchases would be reduced in the very near future. Burning Platform. Daily Bell.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

I don''t and neither does Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets. The Financial Times reports China house price surge raises prospect of steps to cool market. This means that the foreign currency reserves are simply the asset side of a balance sheet against which there are liabilities. Bullish Arguments.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community). But the deindustrialization of large swaths of the country over the past 40 years have shown the danger of just meeting that bare minimum.

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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. It may be investing in a product it doesn’t understand, which happened at Lehman Brothers during the global financial crisis.

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MishTalk

JUNE 16, 2015

What got me thinking about this in detail was a recent statement by Financial Times writer Wolfgang Münchau that France and Germany stand to forfeit €160 billion if Greece defaults. The Bank of Greece has not published the end of May balance sheet yet. If it is, then the increase since end April is only €3 billion.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap. Financial capital is abundant but carefully managed; human capital is scarce but not carefully managed.

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Free Agent CFO

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I’ve been building financial models for more than 20 years. I’ve even been a VAR for a leading driver-based financial modeling tool. Instead, they should be saying to quit walking away after the job of reporting financial or non-financial data based on the past. Meet Susan. Focusing on the past is not.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Also recall that Greek debt was restructured twice to meet those targets. Greece Strikes Back The Financial Times reports Greece Strikes Back. The vote sets the scene for a tense meeting when troika representatives return to Athens this month. Samaras Forced to Act Tough The Financial Times warns Samaras.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Governing Council decided to start purchasing non-financial private sector assets. The Eurosystem will purchase a broad portfolio of simple and transparent asset-backed securities (ABSs) with underlying assets consisting of claims against the euro area non-financial private sector under an ABS purchase programme (ABSPP).

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 12 the Financial Times reported EU reaches landmark deal on failed banks with a "common rule book for handling failed banks". At the same time we also established clear rules to deal with the most exceptional cases in which overall financial stability is in danger. ” I replied "wait for the details".

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

despite very accommodative financial conditions and record corporate profits, growth of business fixed investment has been tepid. Looking forward, my outlook for 2015 is that economic growth will be close to the pace of the past two years, supported by continued solid fundamentals and accommodative financial conditions.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2014

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. George Magnus writing for the Financial Times about the cash crunch noted "China’s credit boom is still in full swing. Here we are. You will have an easy chance.

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