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...The difference is important because an average corporation might go bust; the S&P 500 never will. Some members of the index will peter out, but others will soar....
...Declining tax rates accounted for a hefty 22 per cent of the profit growth of S&P 500 non-financial groups in the three decades to 2019, a study by the Federal Reserve’s Michael Smolyansky has shown....
...Over the past three years, the Italian benchmark has eclipsed the S&P 500 index in local currency terms....
...On Monday the S&P 500 lost 0.1 per cent after comments from Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell indicated a reduced likelihood of an interest rate cut in March....
...Data from S&P Global indicated that a fifth of the company’s stock — totalling €930mn — is being targeted by short sellers, who typically borrow shares in order to sell them, buying them back later to profit...
...“Details from France and Spain, as well as the Italian and German reports, suggest domestic demand was a drag on growth while net trade provided a boost,” said Melanie Debono, an economist at consultants...
...Meta, Facebook’s parent company, spent the most of any S&P 500 company for a chief executive’s personal air travel that year, reporting $2.3mn on private flights for Mark Zuckerberg....
...Looks like S&P Ratings doesn’t find “attestations” especially convincing, either....
...The S&P 500 has hit record highs this year. “I inherited an economy that was on the brink. Now our economy is the envy of the world,” Biden said in his State of the Union speech on Thursday....
...Households and small businesses would have the option to repurchase impaired loans made between 2015 and 2021 that were sold by banks to third parties by the end of 2022, according to S&P Global....
...“You are not going to lose too many votes by increasing taxes on banks,” said Giles Edwards, a banks analyst at S&P Global Ratings....
...As such the buyout does not look too shabby at 20 times this year’s operating profit on S&P Capital IQ estimates. But with more effort management might be able to double these earnings....
...S&P 500 Energy index....
...Daniel Yergin, vice-chair of CERAWeek host S&P Global, said Guyana was an extraordinary story and Exxon and its partners had clearly been awarded very competitive terms to develop the resources....
...And on Wall Street, the S&P 500 has hit record highs this year. So what’s going on? Shouldn’t voters love all of this?...
...Below, from Bloomberg, is the total return for the S&P 500 and some large rival markets over the past decade and the decade before that, in dollar terms (I have included the S&P equal-weighted index as a...
...Back in May, when the staples sell-off began, yields for S&P 500 staples were about 2.5 per cent on average, only a bit better than the wider market....
...The benchmark S&P 500 has climbed 19 per cent in six months, while volatility — a threat to would-be floats — has remained low....
...The S&P 500 closed down almost 1 per cent with roughly nine in every 10 stocks losing ground....
...Of the 674 companies featured in the Fortune 500 and S&P 500, 8.4 per cent of vacant CEO positions were filled by CFOs in 2023 — the highest percentage dating back to 2013, the first year of available data...
...Exclude the Magnificent Seven and an “S&P 493” would have returned only 8 per cent, according to Goldman Sachs’s latest calculations....
...S&P rates BPY’s debt BBB-, the lowest investment grade credit rating....
...A recent report by analysts at S&P Global made clear how little incentive these companies have to change their ways....
...Moody’s is already a notch more bearish than peers S&P and Fitch, which have confirmed their ratings in recent reviews. A downgrade would widen the gap further, which would be unusual....
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