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...Maas and Samantha Shannon growing 79 per cent and 169 per cent in the period, and demand for Harry Potter, 26 years after publication, remaining strong....
...Vanke still has an investment-grade rating at S&P and Fitch, the latter of which downgraded it in October, citing weak sales....
...You can argue about how big the UK market valuation discount really is, compared with the crude price-earnings basis that values the S&P 500 at double the FTSE 100....
...Newton pointed to the “huge” growth in fantasy novels, with sales of books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha Shannon growing 79 per cent and 169 per cent respectively in the period and demand for Harry Potter...
...Coates also narrowly trumps the best-paid executives in the US S&P 500, where Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman earned $253mn last year (he separately received about $1bn in dividends) and Alphabet’s Sundar...
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...The average net interest margins for all Chinese commercial banks is set to fall to 1.76 per cent in 2023, down 0.17 percentage points from 2022, according to S&P Global China Ratings, and is expected to...
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...They’re going to have a piece of the energy pie, just a bit less of it,” said Thomas Watters, managing director at S&P Global Ratings and another of the report’s authors....
...Thomas Pugh, economist at leading audit, tax and consulting firm RSM UK, said the credit growth “should support a rebound in economic growth in November and December, after a dismal October, that could prove...
...That is a very important question for the markets and policymakers alike,” said Louis Kuijs, chief Asia economist at S&P Global. “Everyone is asking, ‘Is the Chinese economy stalling?’...
...Without them, it jumped just 12 per cent: a tech sector tail has been wagging the S&P 500 dog....
...China’s benchmark CSI 300 index of Shanghai- and Shenzhen-listed stocks is down more than 2 per cent this year, compared with a rise of almost 14 per cent for the S&P 500....
...“We believe the company faces significant execution risk in unfreezing offshore cash that could be pledged for onshore borrowings,” S&P analysts noted....
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...Thomas Pugh, economist at consulting group RSM UK, said: “The economy probably contracted in Q3 and, at face value, the PMIs are pointing to another contraction in Q4, which would mark the start of a recession...
...That’s if you look at the S&P 500, Europe’s Stoxx 600 and China’s CSI 300 indices. The MSCI index of global stocks is on course for its worst month since last September....
...S&P recently upgraded Miami bonds to AA on this basis, even though the city expects the sea level to rise by up to 21 inches (53cm) by 2070....
...The S&P 500 experienced its sharpest decline since the middle of February and US government bonds also rose as investors sought safe-haven assets....
...On Wednesday, the FTSE 100 consumer goods company appointed a new chief financial officer, Shannon Eisenhardt....
...The sale of RTL Nederland values the Dutch operations roughly at a 50 per cent premium compared with RTL Group, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...But Thomas Pugh, economist at RSM UK, said: “Growth is likely to remain marginal over the next year, meaning that it wouldn’t take much of a deterioration, in sentiment or economic conditions, to tip the...
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