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Valutico
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
In this article, we’ll cover the basics of what a discount rate is and where it’s used. More importantly, we’ll dig deeper into how discount rates can influence investment choices and how they’re used to figure out a company’s worth. What is a discount rate?
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 30, 2023
The US treasury market, considered by some still as a safe haven, was anything but safe or a haven, especially at the long maturities, as long term rates soared, with inflation (not the Fed) being the key driver. That is good advice in most years, but 2022 was not one of those years.
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IVSC
APRIL 26, 2024
Monetary policy across major markets, including the pace and timing of interest rate cuts by major central banks will have a material impact on risk-free rates, a key input for valuations across multiple asset classes.
Musings on Markets
MARCH 25, 2021
The first has been the steep rise in treasury rates in the last twelve weeks, as investors reassess expected economic growth over the rest of the year and worry about inflation. The Interest Rates Story To me the biggest story of markets in 2021 has been the rise of interest rates, especially at the long end of the maturity spectrum.
Brian DeChesare
AUGUST 31, 2022
Traditionally, if someone asked the “ sales & trading vs. investment banking ” question, the response was easy: “Do banking unless you really, really like trading and could not imagine doing anything else.”. Let’s say that a company issues a $5 billion convertible bond at a 0.50% coupon rate, and its share price is currently $200.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 27, 2022
That said, the three primary inflation indices in the US, the CPI, the PPI and the GDP deflator all told the same story in 2021: Download historical inflation numbers The inflation rate during the course of the year reached levels not seen in close to 40 years, with every price index registering a surge.
Musings on Markets
MAY 6, 2022
In fact, the average inflation rate in the 2011-20 decade was the lowest of the seven decades that I cover in this chart. While the market-implied expected inflation rate has also climbed to a ten-year high of 2.85%, it is clearly lower than the consumer survey expectation.
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