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...Earlier this month investment bank Jefferies held its annual Asia forum in Hong Kong....
...Financial data company S&P Global is nearing a deal to buy research platform Visible Alpha for more than $500mn from a consortium of investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and UBS, according...
...Financial data company S&P Global is nearing a deal to buy research platform Visible Alpha that could value it at more than $500mn from a consortium of investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Jefferies...
...“The die is cast for China to come in and trump BHP’s offer with relatively little resistance from the South African authorities,” said John Meyer, a mining analyst at S&P Angel....
...Jefferies said CRH was likely to be eligible to join the S&P Total Market index in June, “which could drive the purchase of 35mn shares”....
...Indeed, net interest income is expected to be flat this year, says Jefferies....
...The company, which owns S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna, also revealed it launched a review of its natural mineral water operations in several countries in response to concerns that these might not be in line...
...The problem, according to Jefferies’ chief economist and strategist for Europe, Mohit Kumar, is that the Magnificent Seven offers both growth AND quality....
...I had to mark up my GDP expectations because of retail sales,” said Tom Simons, US economist at Jefferies....
...“With a suite of new management and £30mn additional cost savings announced today, we sense a step change in urgency,” said Jefferies analyst James Wheatcroft....
...Capex and R&D will come in at less than 7 per cent of sales, says Philippe Houchois at Jefferies. VW spends about twice that. A lot could still go wrong....
...Here, for the sake of variety, is Jefferies’ version of the watch-flipper price tracker....
...Drug developers raised $6.2bn in equity capital markets in January, according to data from Jefferies....
...The signs are that Vegas is increasing F1’s reach in the US, where the addition of a race in Miami has helped Liberty Media to grow the sport’s appeal....
...A Federal Reserve auction of 10-year Treasuries earlier today received “soft” investor interest, according to Ben Jeffery, a rates strategist at BMO Capital Markets....
...“I don’t think anyone has raised any equity since late 2022,” said Matthew Hose, equity analyst at Jefferies. “They’ve had to adapt to this new environment....
...S&P 500 hit an all-time high on Friday but, as my colleagues Nicholas Megaw and Kate Duguid have pointed out, stocks limped to the summit....
...Christopher Jefferies Bristol, UK...
...“We put on about S$30bn in that period of time just to lock in rates to protect us from a declining interest rate environment.”...
...Trading on Monday showed 2024’s first day of gains for the stock, with a 1.3 per cent rise....
...“There have been numerous data points over the past two months that support [a] more favourable outlook for 2024” for IPOs, said Jesse Mark, global head of equity capital markets at investment bank Jefferies...
...Tom Simons, US economist at Jefferies, described the figures as “stunning numbers” that left him “near speechless”....
...The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on Friday after a blistering rally in tech stocks....
...When the S&P 500 index dropped from 4,800 to 3,600 in 2022, did the put get exercised? No!...
...The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite each gained 0.4 per cent to close at their highest levels in about 20 months....
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