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...The median pay for S&P 500 chief executives jumped 9 per cent to $15.7mn in the year to April 15, widening the gulf in remuneration between US and UK bosses....
...Berkshire and the S&P 500 If your entire equity portfolio had to be in either the S&P 500 or Berkshire Hathaway, which would be the better choice?...
...The S&P 500 isn’t at such extremes today....
...Canada’s main stock index, the S&P/TSX Composite, has advanced 31 per cent since 2019, compared with a 74 per cent gain for the S&P 500....
...Canada’s main stock index, the S&P/TSX Composite, has advanced 31 per cent in the last five years, compared to a 74 per cent gain for the S&P 500....
...Thus only a fraction of overall AUM is deployed in strategies that have a direct impact on the VIX® index (e.g. 1-month over/underwriting strategies on the S&P 500 index)....
...In contrast, the S&P 500’s price-to-book ratio is close to the record 5 times it touched in 2021 and 2000 (the Nasdaq’s P/B ratio is close to 7.5 times)....
...But, as S&P puts it when explaining why U.S....
...That trails a 165 per cent gain by Buffett over the same period and a 211 per cent total return by the S&P....
...P500 forecast range from strategists for 2018 was c.17%....
...The S&P 489 has a weighted average P/E of 24, cheaper than the whole index, but not by much....
...We’ll just note that S&P currently rates Paramount Global one notch above junk with a stable outlook....
...And while corporates have been the dominant buyers of equities over the past year, there’s $6tn of dry powder sitting in money market funds that could be dislodged by lower interest rates: The S&P 500’s...
...The S&P Global Clean Energy index, which includes clean energy giants such as Ørsted, the wind farm developer, is down almost 60 per cent below its peak in January 2021 at the height of a frenzy over the...
...S&P Global Ratings said in a report on Thursday that triple C borrowers would “contend with weak cash flow and elevated interest expenses this year”, while “defaults in 2024 [would] largely come from consumer-facing...
...The S&P 500 index was back on form with a sterling total return approaching 10 per cent, European equities surged and even Japanese shares enjoyed rich gains after a long stint in the doldrums....
...It spent more than $43bn on share repurchases between 2013 and 2019, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. It was able to pay for that by cost savings on its aircraft programme....
...Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin has a notable number of paintings, as did the late Genesis P-Orridge – founder of industrial sound provocateurs Throbbing Gristle....
...TCI made $12.9bn for investors and ended last year up 33 per cent, ahead of the S&P 500 index’s 24 per cent rise....
...Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.2 per cent shortly after the New York open, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 0.3 per cent....
...a 9.3 per cent fall in the S&P 500....
...This may well present a more obvious buying opportunity than piling into an S&P 500 tracker. But price tag aside, can investment trusts lure buyers away?...
...SRT transactions have picked up, more than doubling globally to €200bn in the two years to 2022, according to data from S&P Global....
...Looks like S&P Ratings doesn’t find “attestations” especially convincing, either....
...Yet shares of insurers such as Allstate, Progressive and AIG are down between 3 per cent and 22 per cent this year, while the S&P 500 has climbed 16 per cent....
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