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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them. In the table below, we compare the changes in regional market capitalizations (in $ millions) over time.

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Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question!

Musings on Markets

In this context, the cost of capital become a measure of the cost of funding a business: In dividend decision s, i.e., the decisions of how much cash to return to owners and in what form (dividends or buybacks), the cost of capital is a divining rod.

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Anatomy of a Market Crisis: Tariffs, Markets and the Economy!

Musings on Markets

trillion in value last week, a 9.24% decline in value from the Friday close on March 28, 2025. China and India have held up the best in the last week, perhaps because both countries have large enough domestic markets to sustain them through a trade war. trillion) were close in percentage terms to the losses in the rest of the market.

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Data Update 2 for 2024: A Stock Comeback - Winning the Expectations Game!

Musings on Markets

That positive result notwithstanding, the recovery was uneven, with a big chunk of the increase in market capitalization coming from seven companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, NVidia and Tesla) and wide divergences in performance across stocks, in performance. increase in market capitalization.

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Brown & Brown Gains 40% YTD: Will the Rally Last?

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With a market capitalization of $28.61 Image Source: Zacks Investment Research The rally was largely driven by higher core commissions and fees, new business, solid retention, rate increases, strategic acquisitions, a strong financial position and effective capital deployment. and 12.3%, respectively, in the same time frame.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

To the extent that some of that risk capital is coming back into the markets, equity markets have benefited, with benefits skewing more towards the companies and markets that were punished the most in 2022. trillion) to market capitalizations, regaining almost half of the value lost in last year's rout.

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The Power of Expectations: Nvidia's Earnings and the Market Reaction!

Musings on Markets

That drop of more than $200 billion in market capitalization in response to what looked like good news, at least on the surface, puzzled market observers, though, as is their wont, they had found a reason by day end. YouTube Video Links Nvidia 10 Q (for 2nd Quarter 2025) Nvidia Valuation (updated on September 5, 2024)