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...“ESG efforts have targeted Texas’ oil and gas economy,” said Aaron Kinsey, chair of the state board of education....
...“The picture underneath tech has been very mixed,” said Aaron Dunn, co-head of value equity at Eaton Vance Equity....
...“Pemex is in a vulnerable position given tight liquidity and poor solvency metrics,” said Aaron Gifford, emerging markets sovereign analyst at T Rowe Price, one of Pemex’s largest bondholders....
...“Everyone built out the pipeline infrastructure for the shale revolution,” said Raoul LeBlanc, vice-president of North American upstream at S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...However, the F&P aspects of regulated firms’ new responsibilities now offer them a way to short-circuit that and get shot of people in one swoop — by treating issues as the competence aspects of F&P.”...
...Those who knew Robertson attributed part of his firm’s success to the influence of Dr Aaron Stern, a psychoanalyst with whom he worked closely for years and who died last year....
...But the slowdown also allowed longtime Austinites Stephen and Ashley Aarons to buy their first home....
...In the supply chain rankings of 2007, P&G, Toyota and Walmart all had a peer ranking score at least double that of Apple....
...The S&P 500 has now set a high 51 times this year, according to Howard Silverblatt at S&P Dow Jones Indices, helped by the Federal Reserve’s $120bn-a-month asset purchase programme which has offset concerns...
...Aaron Yoon, professor in accounting and information management at Kellogg School of Management, says index providers “see value in ESG”. “It is too big to ignore these days,” he observes....
...The S&P 500 is up about 4 per cent this year, while London’s FTSE 100 has climbed 3 per cent....
...In the first quarter of the year, emerging markets equities rose around 5 per cent, less than half the 9 per cent surge in the S&P 500....
...And Aaron Ravenscroft, who runs crane manufacturer Manitowoc, added that clogged US ports had caused “prices to go bonkers”. But he noted that the issue had eased somewhat....
...Wall Street reacted by dumping its stocks, making the sector one of the S&P 500’s smallest....
...In November, S&P downgraded the credit rating on both the group and €1.1bn of its debt, and mentioned operational pressures from the pandemic....
...“The market is obviously not a nice place to be an E&P company at the moment,” Mr Young said....
...Letter in response to this article: More countries look set for revenue-based taxes / From Aaron Schaal, Rye Brook, NY, US...
...In April, S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Detroit debt to negative — making it potentially more difficult and expensive for the city to borrow — on pandemic concerns....
...In all fairness, most funds have fared better than the S&P 500....
...Shares are up 80 per cent year-to-date, outpacing the broader S&P 500’s gain of 15.2 per cent and a 22.4 per cent rally for the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index....
...However, the data provider said that the average masked slower progress by smaller companies, which had only just reached “the level of board gender diversity that the S&P 500 was at a decade ago”....
...Cindy Huang, director of corporate ratings at S&P Global, said the liquidity profile of the entire Chinese market has shifted over the past year-and-a-half: “From 2018 onward it has been much tighter....
...Don’t short the S&P 500....
...In contrast, S&P 500’s retail index is up by about 10 per cent....
...Aaron Sarfatti, partner at Oliver Wyman, estimated managed volatility funds — also known as “target vol” funds — sold $80bn to $100bn of stock futures in recent days....
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