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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

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As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The increase in default spreads was not restricted to foreign markets, as fear also pushed up spreads in the corporate bond market.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

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By the same token, it is impossible to use a pricing metric (PE or EV to EBITDA), without a sense of the cross sectional distribution of that metric at the time. For instance, is it true, as some assert, that inflation was high last year because companies raised prices to increase profits?

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Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

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The History The Adani Group, founded by Gautam Adani, started life as a commodity trading partnership business in Gujarat, and listed on stock markets in 1994, as Adani Exports, with a large chunk of its revenues coming from its operation of a local port in Mundra, with a subsequent entry into the edible oil business.

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