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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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Digital Assets Break Out

Global Finance

Pension funds, too, are dipping their toes into buying bitcoin, The Financial Times reported in January, including funds in the UK and Australia, a sign that even typically staid corners of finance are finding it hard to ignore the potential outsized returns from cryptocurrencies. They will just be money.

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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. It deepens the acquaintance because you encounter hurdle rates in almost every aspect of finance, and it ruins it, by making these hurdle rates all about equations and models.

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Investing Politics: Globalization Backlash and Government Disruption!

Musings on Markets

Disruption's Winners and Losers The obvious winners from disruption are the disruptors, but since many of them scaled up with unformed business models, the payoff is less in the form of profits, and more in terms of their market capitalizations, driven by investors dazzled by their potential.

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Torex Gold to Acquire Prime Mining

Benzinga

(All amounts expressed in Canadian dollars unless otherwise stated) TORONTO, July 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Torex Gold Resources Inc. premium to the 30-day volume-weighted average price ("VWAP") of the Prime Mining Shares based on the 30-day VWAP of the Torex Shares for the period ended July 25, 2025 and an 18.5%

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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Equities

Global Finance

For investment bankers, 2025 will likely offer a different scenario. Global equity markets face risks from the Trump administrations proposed universal tariffs, which could disrupt global trade and corporate earnings. The offering covered 25% of Spinneyss total equity capital, implying a market capitalization of $1.5

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World’s Best Banks in Western Europe 2025

Global Finance

Many increased their focus on sustainable finance (with green bonds as a major growth area), diversified their revenue streams, and invested in new banking technologymodernizing existing apps and exploring new possibilities. Interest rates fell in some cases, and interest rates will continue to fall into 2025.