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Digital Assets Break Out

Global Finance

.” Joaquin Sastre Ibanez, Boerse Stuttgart Digital Two major pension funds in the US have already made significant investments in spot bitcoin ETFs: The State of Michigan Department of the Treasury and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board. The latter has committed more than $300 million to IBIT, BlackRocks spot bitcoin ETF.

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2023 Investment and Market Updates: A Review of the Worst Year Since 1871

Brian DeChesare

Treasuries: 19% [Up 19%]. And my performance stats are as follows: 2019: +36%. Treasuries in March 2020, when rates fell to 0%, and didn’t buy in again until the end of 2022. Treasuries (maturities of 1-3 years). Here it is as of January 3 rd , with differences vs. the start of 2022 in brackets: Equities: 31% [Down 7%].

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A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!

Musings on Markets

In general, higher and more volatile inflation has negative effects on all financial assets, from stocks to corporate bonds to treasury bonds, and neutral to positive effects on gold, collectibles and real assets. I then examine how equities have performed in the less than five months of 2022, where inflation has returned to the front pages.

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In Search of a Steady State: Inflation, Interest Rates and Value

Musings on Markets

There are three possible explanations for the divergence: Short term versus Long term : The consumer survey extracts an expectation of inflation in the near term, whereas the treasury markets are providing a longer term perspective, since I am using ten-year rates to derive the market-implied inflation.

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Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities!

Musings on Markets

The first is the dividends you receive, while you hold stocks, a cash flow stream that provides a measure of stability to investors who seek it. trillion on their market capitalization at the end of 2019. Actual Returns Your returns on equities come in one of two forms. During the course of 2022, US equities collectively lost $11.6

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Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses Proposed Regulations on 15% Corporate Minimum Tax

Reynolds Holding

The Treasury Department and the IRS have released long-awaited proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) on the 15% corporate minimum tax on the book income of certain large corporations (the “CAMT”), more than two years after the CAMT was created as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. [1]

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2024 Investment & Market Updates: How to Reverse a Painful Year with AI Hype and a Frenzied 2-Month Rally

Brian DeChesare

Treasuries. Within equities , I started the year with many value-oriented, international, and high-dividend stocks. Cash now earns 4 – 5%, but that’s barely above the dividend yield on many stock indices. With better decisions, I could have been up 15 – 20% for the year and slightly above my levels from 2 years ago.