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Risk Capital and Markets: A Temporary Retreat or Long Term Pull Back?

Musings on Markets

And Consequences If you are wondering why you should care about risk capital's ebbs and flows, it is because you will feel its effects in almost everything you do in investing and business. The 2008 banking and market crisis caused a drop of almost 50% in 2009, and it took the market almost five years to return to pre-crisis levels.

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Methods of Business Valuation by Their Profitability

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This multiple is similar, by analogy, to the PER (Price to Earnings Ratio of listed companies). Thus two companies with the same level of results but different future performance risks will have different values. Typically, financial debts are therefore loans, credits, and overdrafts from banking establishments.