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...The S&P Global Clean Energy Index, made up of 100 of the biggest such companies, is set for its worst annual performance since 2013....
...Blackstone in September became the first private equity group to be included in the S&P 500 index and its rivals Apollo Global and KKR are hoping they are not far behind....
...Gains by Big Tech company shares have been the engine of this year’s US stock market rally, so if these earnings disappoint the whole market will be vulnerable to a correction. One more thing . . ....
...Debt is the primary fuel that powers the private equity engine, and between the early 1980s and the 2020s, the cost of that fuel haltingly fell to zero....
...A: Rolls-Royce, ending their partnership to develop a supersonic engine with Boom “It turns out that a country’s budget is not so far away from a household budget, after all....
...“Any time you set up a P&L, over time you could create a reportable entity, but it’s not our direction,” he said. “This is in order to keep these companies focused.”...
...Almost every line on the quarterly P&L beat expectations. Investment banking, the engine of Barclays’ recovery, did not outperform peers on revenues, but instead due to a surprising drop in costs....
...The tilt towards higher growth markets, allied with a leaner structure, brings P&L benefits. Siemens has carved out the low-growth energy business....
...I very much believe it's going to be a very strong third pillar for our business, and I think it could be a significant P&L contributor to our company, definitely within five years, and definitely within...
...The lack of big technology stocks in the region has been a drag, but index heavyweights such as L’Oréal and Nestlé are now nearly flat for the year, having weathered the early part of the crisis....
...But the 82-year-old is also the longest-serving chief executive of an S&P 500 company, having run Victoria’s Secret’s parent company L Brands since 1963. This can lead to some strange views....
...A modest contribution from the group's growth engine, a lower exposure than peers to e-commerce and limited P&L flexibility add to our concerns that the challenges faced by Unilever will take time and money...
...The company has announced an interim dividend of $101m ($0.9531 p/s) and is launching a new $67.3m share buyback today....
...Now, a number of readers are certainly worried about surging money supply in many countries as central banks have fired up their engines....
...L and net debt....
...We also note S&P’s CreditWatch on the BBBrating will be resolved when ‘financial performance and liquidity resulting from COVID-19 can be assessed’....
...S&P 500 futures triggered the limit-down circuit breakers at about 5am GMT, the index having bounced 6 per cent in the regular session....
...“We all knew that at the end of the year, all that mattered was P&L,” said one....
...“The P&L [profit and loss] impact could ironically be positive, as the Trent 7000 OE [original equipment] deliveries will be loss making, with the returns coming from the after-market.”...
...Estée Lauder’s shares have outperformed the S&P 500 Personal Products index by 300 per cent and French rival L’Oréal by 165 per cent over the same period....
...“But what we do want them to commit to doing . . . is become the cash flow engines that fund the energy transition.”...
...His annunciation is the outcome of a process as meticulous and intensive as the manufacture of a composite fan blade for one of its aircraft engines....
...Another, the PowerShares S&P SmallCap Low Volatility ETF, has nearly half of its assets in financials....
...The jet engines group has confirmed an FT report that Tony Wood, head of aerospace, and Lawrie Haynes, boss of the land and sea division, will step down....
...P&G’s line was “Being A Chinese Citizen”. KFC has provided Chinese style breakfasts. L’Oreal created cosmetics friendly to the Chinese skin....
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