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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year.

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ESG Task Force Brings First Case

Harvard Corporate Governance

a publicly traded (NYSE) Brazilian mining company and one of the world’s largest iron ore producers, charging that it made “false and misleading claims about the safety of its dams prior to the January 2019 collapse of its Brumadinho dam. debt markets.

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Do Dual-Class Structures Help Stock Markets Attract Listings?

Reynolds Holding

Financial globalization has allowed issuers more freedom to shop among jurisdictions and thus intensified stock market competition. Against this backdrop, the Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and UK stock markets have accepted the dual-class share structure (DCSS). As of December 31, 2019, 18 of these DCSS issuers were delisted (18.6

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Exxon Mobil Reportedly Nearing $60B Megadeal To Buy Pioneer Natural Resources

Benzinga

The purchase of Pioneer, which has a market capitalization of around $50 billion, could be Exxon’s most significant deal since its 1999 merger with Mobil. oil industry’s most recent significant takeover — Occidental Petroleum’s 2019 acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum for about $38 billion.

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Formula 1 in Las Vegas: The Race That Hopes You Don’t Sleep

Value Scope

has seen a significant increase since the debut of the Netflix series “Drive to Survive” in 2019. It’s current market capitalization is approximately $15 billion. Formula 1 in Las Vegas Despite the marketing hype beyond any Vegas headliner show or prior sporting event, preparations and demand for the race have hit a speed bump.

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

In response, I have been told that the problem is not with the idea of ESG, but in its measurement and application, and that impact investing is the solution to both market and society's problems. If impact investing were measured entirely on fund flows into green energy companies and out of fossil fuel companies, it has clearly succeeded.

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Back to Earth or Temporary Setback? Revisiting the FANGAM Stocks

Musings on Markets

It has been a rocky year so far, in 2022, with worries about inflation competing with hopes about recovery for the market's attention. Netflix and Facebook saw drops of 20% or more in market capitalization, following negative earnings reports, but Amazon and Google beat market expectations. to 14.9%. to 14.9%.