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Earnings call
A conference held by companies to address their earnings report results, attended by analysts, investors and the media.
Earnings per Share (EPS)
A profitability ratio calculated by dividing a company’s net income by its outstanding shares. It reveals the profit attributed to each stock share, with higher EPS making the stock more appealing to investors.
Earnings Recession
Two or more consecutive quarters of year-on-year decline in aggregate corporate earnings. The structure mimics a GDP recession but applies to profits, not output. The two don’t always coincide. The 2015–16 episode is the textbook case where they didn’t: US GDP kept growing, but earnings fell for five straight quarters as oil collapsed and a strong dollar punished multinationals translating foreign earnings back into USD. Earnings recessions matter because equity markets care about earnings more than GDP. A profits drag can compress multiples even while the broader economy chugs along. Example: S&P 500 earnings declined year-on-year for three quarters from late 2022 into early 2023. The economy didn’t enter recession. Equity indices wobbled and recovered. By the time anyone wrote the postmortem, the drag was already fading.
Earnings reports
Financial statements released by corporations quarterly or annually.
East Caribbean Dollar (XCD)
The shared currency of eight Eastern Caribbean states. Pegged to the US dollar at 2.70 XCD per USD since 1976, one of the longest-running pegs anywhere on the planet. Issued by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in Saint Kitts. The members: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, plus Anguilla and Montserrat as British territories. Eight small islands sharing one currency makes more sense than eight tiny separate ones, which is the whole point. They pool reserves, share central-banking infrastructure, and import US monetary credibility along with the peg. Example: A 270 XCD bar tab in Saint Lucia? Hand over a hundred-dollar bill. Done. The 2.70:1 ratio is so embedded that nobody calculates anything.
ECB
The European Central Bank. Frankfurt. Built in 1998 to run monetary policy for the soon-to-launch euro, and now responsible for setting rates across 21 member states. The mandate is price stability, defined as 2% inflation over the medium term, the “medium term” doing a lot of work in that sentence. The Governing Council meets eight times a year. Decisions come from the six-person Executive Board plus the governors of all eurozone national central banks, which means a country like Malta has the same single vote as Germany. The ECB’s toolkit has expanded enormously since 2010, asset purchases, TLTROs, negative deposit rates, forward guidance, the whole post-crisis arsenal. Example: Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” speech in July 2012 didn’t announce any specific programme. He just said it. Italian and Spanish bond yields collapsed within weeks. That’s the most powerful sentence ever spoken at a press conference, and the ECB built a programme to back it up only after the words had already done the work.
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