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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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Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2025

Global Finance

However, there was variation in individual IFIs performances; and many winners of Global Finances Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2025 achieved growth and profitability beyond their peers. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence data, returns for the Islamic Banking Sector in 2024 were stable at 1.7%, matching the prior years.

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Data Update 9 for 2025: Dividends and Buybacks - Inertia and Me-tooism!

Musings on Markets

In my ninth (and last) data post for 2025, I look at cash returned by businesses across the world, looking at both the magnitude and the form of that return. I also look at a clear and discernible shift away from dividends to stock buybacks, especially in the US, and examine both good and bad reasons for this shift.

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Tanzania: East Africa’s New Powerhouse

Global Finance

in 2024 and 6% in 2025. Apart from political stability and economic reforms, factors like strategic location, abundant natural resources, infrastructure expansion, investment incentives, and a growing local and regional market are among the factors making Tanzania quite attractive. Inflation (2024, projected): 3.2% Tanzania office.

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

Musings on Markets

Coming after a few days where the market seemed to have found its bearings (at least partially), it was clear from the initial reactions across the world that the breadth and the magnitude of the tariffs had caught most by surprise, and that a market markdown was coming.

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

Musings on Markets

In the first five posts, I have looked at the macro numbers that drive global markets, from interest rates to risk premiums, but it is not my preferred habitat. The second set of inputs are prices of risk, in both the equity and debt markets, with the former measured by equity risk premiums , and the latter by default spreads.

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Indonesia: Building The Future Of Southeast Asia

Global Finance

Indonesia is a substantial and growing market for us. Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company, in their 2024 e-Conomy Southeast Asia report, named Indonesia the fastest-growing large internet market. Second, access the ASEAN and South Asian markets. GDP per capita (2024): $5,000 GDP growth (2024): 5% Inflation (2024): 2.5%

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