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...Jordan, who once aspired to build his own fitness empire in Michigan, is instead fighting F45 in court....
...Ark set out to have a portfolio that has little overlap with the Nasdaq and the S&P 500....
...Together they lifted the Nasdaq Composite 4 per cent, ahead of the benchmark S&P 500....
...Those who publish false statements with “malicious intent” face criminal sanctions, including fines of up to S$1m ($740,000) and jail sentences of up to 10 years....
...University of Michigan’s most recent survey of consumers also put sentiment at the second highest point since 2004.”...
...In the US, at 1330 GMT, we have the flash October durable and capital goods orders data, followed at 1500 GMT with the final November University of Michigan consumer sentiment reading....
...It was a young white man from Michigan who called himself Eminem....
...If you take a look at the Michigan consumer sentiment data, which we got today you can see that people are feeling good. That helps explain the market high....
...At 1500 GMT, the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment index will be published, too....
...That reasoning will be put to the test later on Friday when US retail sales data for July are released at 1330 BST and the University of Michigan Sentiment index for August is published at 1500 BST....
...In the US, April personal income and personal consumption readings are at 1330 BST, followed by the March S&P/Case-Shiller home priceindices at 1400, the May Chicago PMI at 1445 and the May Conference Board...
...Other releases showed an upward revision to the final December reading of the University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment....
...It will be able to study the latest inflation data at 1330 GMT, with the November consumer price index....
...The revised November University of Michigan consumer sentiment index is expected to be little changed from the preliminary 93.1....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.1 per cent to record close of 2,122. The benchmark index gained 0.3 per cent over the week....
...US index futures showed Wall Street’s S&P 500 easing 1 point to 1,654, though that could change significantly depending on the outcome of the US non-farm payrolls report, due for release at 1330 BST....
...S&P revised the outlook for its credit rating of the US to stable from negative....
...Attorneys for Kevyn Orr, a corporate bankruptcy lawyer tapped by Michigan officials in March as Detroit’s emergency manager, want U.S....
...(Financial Times) SAC Capital case nears breakthrough on laptop access: “US prosecutors are finalising an agreement with the University of Michigan that would give them access to computer files tied to...
...The four US wirehouse brokerages seem a brave bunch, still smarting from 2008’s market bust but nonetheless dismissing their fast-growing independent rivals....
...The S&P 500 was up 0.5 per cent to 1,332.72 by mid-session on Wall Street....
...In the run-up to the Virgin/Northern Rock deal, for example, he made a debut investment in shipping, buying into tanker business Diamond S....
...The S&P 500 fell 2.1 per cent to 1,151.06, shedding half of its gains from Monday and Tuesday’s rally....
...The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index came in at 72.4 for May, a three-month high, as Americans turned more optimistic about the economy....
...Mr Nasser stayed on in Michigan, in 2002 becoming a partner at One Equity Partners, JP Morgan’s private equity house....
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