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...Paul Mason, an analyst with E&P, said: “This is clearly a positive development for the Altium share price....
...China’s stock market has badly lagged global peers in 2023, with the benchmark CSI 300 index down more than 2 per cent this year against a rise of almost 14 per cent for the S&P 500....
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...“When you think about places like Nigeria, when you think about places like Argentina, it’s very difficult for us as a US dollar-denominated company to create value”, Andre Schulten, P&G’s chief financial...
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...Taken to its extreme, the open-ended fund converges with, say, Berkshire Hathaway, arguably the world’s original evergreen vehicle, or even buying and holding the S&P 500 on margin....
...The expense ratio — 34.4 per cent last year — is likely to fall by two percentage points over the next few years, says S&P....
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...Rio Tinto’s difficult years-long expansion of the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia is now delivering tonnes into a constrained copper market, where stronger prices helped the major miner prop up earnings...
...Hedge funds have begun to circle, with Elliot taking a 5 per cent stake in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust a week after it announced a £1bn share buyback in an attempt to prop up its share price....
...A survey by S&P Global Mobility showed that about 45 per cent of consumers across countries cited concerns over the availability of charging stations, and the time required for charging, as reasons for not...
...But what’s most entertaining is that the government goes ahead and shows the professor’s ongoing work calculating Alameda’s historical balances with FTX — basically the firm’s net P&L — from last year:...
...Data provider CFRA noted that the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) lost 12 per cent in the year to December 11 while the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF (EMXC) was up 12 per cent over the same period....
...The slump worsened last year, despite aggressive government measures to prop up sentiment....
...That made for an unsustainable debt load, which S&P put at A$870mn to A$880mn, on an adjusted basis. That was about 17 times ebitda....
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...Investment trusts have been bulking up in a bid to prop up their share prices, which are trading just shy of the discounts seen at the end of 2008 owing to a combination of higher interest rates and a change...
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...Vanke still has an investment-grade rating at S&P and Fitch, the latter of which downgraded it in October, citing weak sales....
...Authorities have responded with various efforts to prop stocks up, with little obvious success. It is not a pretty picture....
...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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