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...He said Tokyo stocks had earnings per share growth over the past decade that outstripped the US S&P 500 index, but mostly sagging valuations....
...Last week, Avon International announced a leadership change that would see chief executive Angela Cretu step down, to be replaced by chief marketing officer Kristof Neirynck at the start of next year....
...Ministers should ask themselves how the scandal at P&O Ferries, when nearly 800 workers were forced out of their jobs at the drop of a hat, could happen in this day and age....
...Performance so far in 2023 has struggled to keep up with the past few years, and even Griffin acknowledges the purple patch cannot last for ever....
...Standout performers last year included Sir Christopher Hohn’s TCI, Ken Griffin’s Citadel and Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking....
...Angela Eagle, Labour MP for Wallasey, said: “My constituents and many people that write to the committee feel that insurance is becoming more of a rip-off.”...
...The S&P 500 index rose 24.2 per cent in 2023 in comparison....
...Gas demand from Europe’s industrial sector was down 24 per cent last year from 2019 levels, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...Virtu’s shares have fallen almost 10 per cent this year even as benchmarks such as the S&P 500 have rallied....
...The S&P 500 finished last week up 5.9 per cent, its best week for a year....
...The FTSE 100 has lagged far behind New York’s benchmark S&P 500 and Europe’s region-wide Stoxx 600 in 2023. But some argue that UK stocks suddenly have the wind at their backs....
...And recently these firms like Griffin’s Citadel and Englander’s Millennium have been knocking it out of the park....
...Citadel, which suffered badly in the 2008 financial crisis but has gone on to post returns well ahead of the S&P 500 and its peers, was last year able to put on risk when many other investors were running...
...Janine P.S....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: Germany reports retail sales for last month, while S&P Global has its manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ indices for France, Germany...
...In 1996 the Harvard political scientist Samuel P Huntington made a prescient case for conflict between civilisations as the defining feature of a new era, arguing that the most important distinctions between...
...Despite its strong long-term record, neither of Schonfeld’s two funds have made money this year, adding to an underwhelming 2022 in which the firm lagged far behind the likes of Ken Griffin’s Citadel and...
...I am somewhat surprised by this and ask Doctor P if he witnessed this himself. “The man just has a heart of gold, helping people.”...
...The company, which is majority owned by billionaire Ken Griffin, forms a critical part of the plumbing of US financial markets....
...S&P added that it expects an “anaemic” recovery would begin in the third quarter of 2023....
...The performance of the S&P 500 index is now the most concentrated it has been since the 1970s....
...Ken Griffin’s Citadel made a $16bn profit for investors last year, establishing his company as the most successful hedge fund in history....
...Canadian virologist Angela Rasmussen worries that “we haven’t seen the end of this virus” as new Covid sub-variants emerge....
...Among the biggest macro winners were Ken Griffin’s Citadel, which made 32.6 per cent in its fixed-income and macro fund, its best ever annual return, and Caxton Associates, whose Macro fund run by chief...
...Keeping up with the Griffins Citadel’s Ken Griffin is looking to relocate a historic home on land the billionaire purchased in Miami for more than $100mn last year....
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