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...Thus only a fraction of overall AUM is deployed in strategies that have a direct impact on the VIX® index (e.g. 1-month over/underwriting strategies on the S&P 500 index)....
...The first is a standalone public company — albeit with a lot of other businesses bolted on — while the latter two are part of broader listed companies, S&P Global and LSEG respectively....
...And while the S&P never did hit a new high and has fallen back in January, the Italian market has continued its upward momentum. The boom is arguably healthier too....
...This has created a patchwork network of protection alongside Ukraine’s own post-Soviet systems such as the S-300....
...This could be a catalyst for discretionary investors to cut back elevated positioning. Presently, S&P 500 vol priced for next Wednesday’s FOMC day is still muted....
...No one yet knows how 2024’s election will unfold....
...Letter in response to this article: Forget executive pay, let’s see companies run better / From Vera Cherepanova, Malibu, CA, US...
...“Dead” can be used to mean “tired”, as in English (“je suis complètement dead”), but in French it’s also used as a verb, roughly equivalent to the American phrase “to kill it”: “Tu as dead ça” means “you...
...The BoE’s forecasting team(s) should also compete....
...Ca Madó Paula was a six-room hotelito with beamed ceilings, crisp white sheets and the charm of an old-fashioned Spanish pensión....
...All in all, Goldman forecasts that real incomes will grow by another 3 per cent in 2024, below 2023’s ca 4 per cent but comfortably above the 20-year pre-pandemic average of 2.5 per cent (zoomable version...
..., CA, US...
...(This is a record Tesla will probably retain as most normal companies tend to be consistently profitable — a condition for S&P 500 inclusion — long before they get a market cap of then-ca $440bn.)...
...Plus ça change. Apple will be one to watch in the earnings reports, where transport will also be a strong theme....
...Yet when a reporter aired a partial rebuttal of Giuliani, Shah complained: “This is the kinda s*** that will kill us.”...
...Individual crypto businesses and their (cough) related parties often have more than a whiff of the ouroboros about them....
...S&P Global Mobility predicts it will fall below 20 per cent by 2025 as other makers bring out electric trucks and cheaper models faster than Tesla can build new factories....
...The MSCI All-Country World index is a decent proxy for most institutional stock portfolios, and a decade ago the US weighting was 47.7 per cent — high, but far from the probably ca-80 per cent of private...
...The satire of earlier G&S gives way to a more sentimental style here....
...s=20&t=pcwJG65_c10H3snOQWzI4w However, the whole thing still looks a bit . . . desperate?...
...In 11 years since the last update, it’s plus ça change, says GS: In the period since our 2011 projections, the global economy has been buffeted by a number of secular challenges and economic shocks: disappointing...
...So FT Alphaville sat down for a fevered quasi-binge of the show and tried to make sense of Succession’s financial plotline(s)....
...My companion, declaring he is “going hot”, opts for the tom yam gung fish soup and a pay ca paw beef curry....
...Letter in response to this article: Divestment debate that reminds me of Apartheid / From Kevin Lo, Albany, CA, US...
...“A-ca-buh”, it came out in French. Then someone set a dustbin on fire — the perfect Instagram image — and other demonstrators began filming it....
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