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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year.

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Breaking Ties: Kraft Heinz Closes Business Operations in Russia

Valutico

Share Price Performance KHC’s heavy debt load following its merger in 2015 was lightened by the pandemic’s increased demand for food, lower interest costs, and opportunities for divestment. Despite a flat operating performance in 2021, the company successfully reduced its net debt to $22 billion.

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Breaking Ties: Kraft Heinz Closes Business Operations in Russia

Valutico

Share Price Performance KHC’s heavy debt load following its merger in 2015 was lightened by the pandemic’s increased demand for food, lower interest costs, and opportunities for divestment. Despite a flat operating performance in 2021, the company successfully reduced its net debt to $22 billion.

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

In response, I have been told that the problem is not with the idea of ESG, but in its measurement and application, and that impact investing is the solution to both market and society's problems. If impact investing were measured entirely on fund flows into green energy companies and out of fossil fuel companies, it has clearly succeeded.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The increase in default spreads was not restricted to foreign markets, as fear also pushed up spreads in the corporate bond market.

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Is BP’s new strategy – full focus on profits – viable in the long term?

Valutico

Compared with last year’s net income of GBP 10.3 (USD billion in net debt, reducing total debt to GBP 17.5 (USD In comparison to BP’s market capitalization of GBP 101 (USD 122) billion we suggest that the company is slightly undervalued. billion, profit increased by an unbelievable 120%.

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Is Radiant Opto-Electronics an Undervalued Dividend Play?

Andrew Stolz

Highlights: End markets mature, no opportunities to grow. End markets mature, no opportunities to grow. ROEC’s revenue is mainly dependent on the growth of the end markets such as computers, phones, and tablets. A mature market for smartphones translates into low demand for displays and ROEC’s backlights.