Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. This income volatility is the result of broad shifts in the labor market. households.

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Cash Flow Financial Insurance Insurance 34

MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Most correlation analysis finds virtually no post-war relationship between economic growth and the stock market. Indeed, we knew from Japan that the equity market would start to track the economic and earnings cycle closely. A sharp decline in EPS optimism since 2009 has been consistent with previous hiatuses in financial markets.

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Company Cash Flow Sales Report 70

MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Rising vacancy rates and plummeting rents are increasingly common in Chinese malls and department stores, despite official data showing a sharp rebound in retail sales that helped the world's second-largest economy beat expectations in the third quarter. Malaysia-based Parkson (3368.HK),

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MishTalk

MAY 14, 2014

China’s real estate market correction — some economists are even calling it the popping of a bubble — is partly the result of a deliberate decision by the country’s leaders in Beijing. Retail sales also grew more slowly than expected in April, and the furniture market stalled as fewer families moved into new homes.

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Real Estate Banking Cash Flow Construction 77

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

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Banking Small Business Oliver Wyman Retail 32

Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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Cash Flow Management Government Financial 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Even a star company like Nigeria’s online retailer Jumia ( known by some as the potential “African Amazon” ) is struggling to return profits to early investor Rocket Internet, of Germany. Why the downbeat mood? Toyota and Yamaha have found motorbike customers through such social group structures.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

Our analyses controlled for a wide range of the firm characteristics typically used in the statistical analysis of companies: industry, firm size, leverage, profitability, market-to-book ratio, returns, volatility, particular time periods, industry effects, and a host of other factors that might influence litigation.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 28, 2016

And if you’re the acquirer, you can benefit in only one of four ways: You buy an asset on the cheap (that’s what portfolio managers do), but it requires being smarter than the market in pricing the asset. You gain market power, allowing you to price the asset higher than you could otherwise. That leaves synergy.

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Wireless Video Media Cash Flow 28

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Horowitz suggests asking your fellow freelancers what the market is like for your skills and what their rates are. When you’ve got the above logistics sorted out, it’s time to “transition to the active marketing stage,” says Horowitz. “It takes time to get a consistent cash flow going.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Cash: With zero interest rates the penalty for holding cash is not very significant. Stock Market: Nothing cheap. If you take out those stocks, the stock market isn't doing real well. That's indicative of the way the market has responded for the last six months. So I don't understand the stock market.

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