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

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First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1 In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year. trillion during the course of the year.

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Breaking Ties: Kraft Heinz Closes Business Operations in Russia

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While expanding its portfolio in 2021 and 2022 with acquisitions like Brazil’s Hemmer condiment and sauce company and an 85% stake in Germany’s Just Spices GmbH, the company has also recently agreed to sell its Russian baby food business to Chernogolovka. In comparison to Kraft Heinz Company market capitalization of USD 47.4

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Breaking Ties: Kraft Heinz Closes Business Operations in Russia

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While expanding its portfolio in 2021 and 2022 with acquisitions like Brazil’s Hemmer condiment and sauce company and an 85% stake in Germany’s Just Spices GmbH, the company has also recently agreed to sell its Russian baby food business to Chernogolovka. In comparison to Kraft Heinz Company market capitalization of USD 47.4

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Is BP’s new strategy – full focus on profits – viable in the long term?

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Recent Financial Performance In the first week of February 2023, BP released its 2022 annual report, boasting the highest net profit in the company’s history of GBP 22.7 (USD Compared with last year’s net income of GBP 10.3 (USD billion in net debt, reducing total debt to GBP 17.5 (USD

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

Note, though, that while sovereign CDS spreads increased almost 51% between January 1, 2022 and March 16, 2022, in these countries, the overall riskiness of the region remains low, the average spread at 1.30%. lower than the traded value of 4766.

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

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trillion was invested by impact investors in 2021, with a diverse range of investors: Global Impact Investing Network, 2022 Report Not surprisingly, the balance between social impact and financial return desired by investors, varies across investor groups, with some more focused on the former and others the latter.

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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

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While there is nothing inherently that makes one measure superior to the other, it is important to remember that gross debt can never be less than zero, but net debt can, for firms that have cash balances that exceed their debt.

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