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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. Equity Risk Premiums 2. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Buybacks 2. Lease Effect 2.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

First, these categorizations were created close to twenty years ago, when I first started looking a global data, and many countries that were emerging markets then have developed into more mature markets now. Equity Risk Premiums 2. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Buybacks 2. Return on (invested) capital 2.

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ESG's Russia Test: Trial by Fire or Crash and Burn?

Musings on Markets

That judgment may be harsh, but as the Russian hostilities in Ukraine shake up markets, the weakest links in the ESG chain are being exposed, and as the same old rationalizations and excuses get rolled out, I believe that a moment of reckoning is arriving for the concept. They are hypothetical questions, but I think I know the answer.