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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update - First Quarter 2024

Jeff For Banks

In the markets, we watched helplessly as real GDP plummeted -5% in 1Q20 and -31% in 2Q20 before rebounding by +33% in 3Q20. I’ve previously theorized that China would try to reclaim its global market share lost during the pandemic by flooding the markets with cheaper goods. This development could give us good news on inflation.

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The Brexit Bombshell

NCR

Back in 2008, the financial services provider was 158 years old, had been highly regard throughout its existence, and was the fourth-largest investment back in the country. The surprise crash sparked tremors industrywide, crashed the stock market, triggered other defaults and generally devastated the entire financial services sector.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. Market opportunity. Stripe is ramping up its private market investments. Expansion into emerging markets. Stripe’s market opportunity.

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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

billion in assets, had 87 full-time equivalent employees, and accounted for two-thirds of the town's tax revenue. Another depressed town due to the general economic malaise that bedraggled the region when the steelmaking industry moved elsewhere. The government guarantee allowed for a secondary market in these loans.

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Community banks are thriving in Texas

Independent Banker

This region has the kind of energy that draws people to a place and helps them and their businesses thrive. Corporate relocations and expansions—influenced by factors like affordability, low corporate tax rates, no personal income tax and a rich talent pool—have contributed to a momentum that isn’t likely to subside soon.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

And before the dot com crash, Goldman Sachs’ IPOs did tend to jump an average of 293% from their starting price through their first Friday on the market — compared to 26% for the bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and 78% for Merrill Lynch. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2