lunes, 2 de mayo de 2016

Accounting matters...

Food for thought, from a study on US companies'  accounting practices cited by Gretchen Morgenson in the New York Times:

"Among 380 companies that were in existence both last year and in 2009, the study showed, non-GAAP net income was up 6.6 percent in 2015 compared with the previous year. Under generally accepted accounting principles, net income at the same 380 companies in 2015 actually declined almost 11 percent from 2014."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/business/fantasy-math-is-helping-companies-spin-losses-into-profits.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2FFair%20Game&action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day&module=Collection&region=Marginalia&src=me&version=column&pgtype=article


viernes, 5 de febrero de 2016

The peso's been on a steep uphill climb for the last year and an half...


Capital flows to emerging markets...

The graph below (from the Institute of International Finance, via the New York Times) illustrates why one shouldn't be surprised by the weakening of the peso, underway since the summer of 2014.