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...Treasuries rallied and the S&P 500 fell 1.6 per cent. [MUSIC PLAYING] The European Union is locked in a battle with Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán....
...For Jill Carey Hall, US equity strategist and head of US small and mid-cap strategy at Bank of America, the lower valuations of small-caps bode well for returns....
...Even if the Federal Reserve starts cutting rates as expected, it will still trim small-cap earnings by 24 per cent, according to BofA’s Jill Carey Hall....
...P Soleil d’Or gives bright yellow berries on red stems, and P rogersiana Flava has glossy yellow fruits....
...The Russell 2000 index has risen 24 per cent since the beginning of 2020, lagging behind the S&P 500’s more than 60 per cent gain over the same period. Read the full story. 4....
...Now not so much,” Carey Hall said....
...Now the waterfront — which forms part of Liverpool Waters, Peel L&P’s £5bn, 30-year project to transform the city’s northern docks — is taking on a new life itself....
...As its name implies, P Golf Ball takes well to being shaped into balls so long as they are planted in free-draining soil and, preferably, in a sunny position away from cold winds....
...This week Saudi football fans were treated to another Hall of Famer: wrestling great The Undertaker. The 58-year old (how is he still going?)...
...North Korea: Independence Day, this year commemorating the 75th anniversary of the country’s founding with Kim Il Sung as premier UK: Last Night of the Proms broadcast live from London’s Royal Albert Hall...
...Somebody picks a basket of stocks like the S&P 500, for example, and then they build a fund to track those stocks. And they don’t make any choices beyond that....
...The relatively empty halls of the Flying Tigers Museum demonstrated how much still needed to be done to restore good relations....
...Here is the 10-year total returns of the Cliffwater BDC index compared to the S&P 500: Now, that looks like a blowout win for the S&P, but the BDCs still managed to compound returns at 7 per cent a year...
...In the last quarter, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Exxon and Chevron — massive cash spinners all — accounted for more than a quarter of all the buybacks in the S&P 500, according to data from S&P Dow Jones...
...Companies in Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index spent $175bn buying back shares in the three months to June, according to preliminary data from S&P....
...The company is set to make nearly $1.8bn in operating revenue this year, according to S&P Global estimates....
...Royal Caribbean and Carnival are two of the 10 most heavily shorted companies in the S&P 500 but have confounded short sellers’ expectations by more than doubling in value so far this year....
...Hundreds of finance nerds gathered in Painters’ Hall last night for the latest instalment of the FT Alphaville pub quiz....
...“The process is badly damaged,” said Edward P Joseph, a Balkans expert at Johns Hopkins University in the US....
...“I’ve seen all this all before and we are staying the course,” he told employees at a town hall late last year....
...Nasdaq 100 futures pointed to a 1.6 per cent gain at the open, while the S&P 500 was predicted to rise 0.6 per cent....
...Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm told industry insiders lunching in the Hilton’s main hall that the world was able to navigate the post-invasion crisis “thanks in no small part to many in this room” who...
...If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...The trip was due to include a visit by the British monarch to Bordeaux where demonstrators last night set fire to the town hall’s front door. 2....
...The latest S&P Global PMI, a monthly business survey, showed business activity contracting in August in the eurozone and the UK....
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