Hints and tips:
...The dividend may be set for a comeback, but it certainly isn’t back yet. Start with some high level numbers, courtesy of S&P’s excellent Howard Silverblatt....
...“It’s more of a confession that growth isn’t going to come roaring back than anything,” he added....
...the S&P 500 within another Isa held with Vanguard....
...as a sliver of public opinion that doesn’t hold electoral water....
...“If you’re getting 4 per cent yield on some of these products, it’s a no brainer for a retail trader who can’t make 4 per cent in the S&P,” said Viraj Patel, global strategist at Vanda Research....
...A: Lord [Michael] Spencer “This off-ramp won’t stay open for long.”...
...Marc FilippinoLaura Patel is the FT’s Turkey correspondent. [MUSIC PLAYING] The Beijing Winter Olympics officially kick off today....
...Nitesh Patel, strategic economist at Yorkshire Building Society, says YBS expects house prices to continue to increase “but at a slightly slower rate next year”....
...“If you didn’t issue already, you are going to jump on it now,” she said. “How can you not take advantage of that?”...
...“The market has come to the conclusion that it will not come to pass,” said Margie Patel, a senior portfolio manager at Wells Fargo Asset Management....
...For example, the early 20th-century magician David P Abbott used to make a golden ball float around his parlour for guests, using an unseen thread to support the ball....
...“Small companies don’t have the resources,” she added. “They don’t have the deep financial pockets.” The gap is reflected in the returns of the two major indices....
...“If you’re driving a car down a well-paved road you don’t need a lot of the safety features....
...As this Big Read explains, there isn’t much agreement over how to go about organising the isolation of arrivals....
...Persimmon trades on the highest P/NAV, but its land bank and margins warrant that....
...However, with limited upside to our price target on c.15x P/E 2020E, we downgrade to Hold....
...You really can’t blame them....
...Should Refinitiv fall short of this lofty target, its leverage levels could balloon, according to Minesh Patel, a director at S&P Global Ratings. Blackstone declined to comment....
...“There we see no impact [from the presidency], positive or negative, it just doesn’t matter,” he says....
...In Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 dropped 0.7 per cent. According to futures trade, Wall Street’s S&P 500 will fall 0.9 per cent, with the Nasdaq Composite set to lose 1.1 per cent....
...The Russell 2000 index of smaller company stocks, which are better shielded from any tit-for-tat on tariffs, has easily beaten the S&P 500 in performance terms of late....
...Equities In New York, the S&P 500 fell 0.7 per cent to 2,818, but was still up 0.6 per cent for the week....
...and we don’t feel that this has been the case....
...Viraj Patel, FX strategist at ING, says: Global markets haven’t batted an eyelid to the House Republicans passing their version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act....
...Were we to see another bad week for the dollar, we wouldn’t be surprised if the yen was knocking at the door of the ¥110 per dollar level....
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