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...The non-bank lenders have been attracted by the high returns on offer, with many loans yielding 6 or 7 percentage points over the floating rate benchmark, or roughly 11 per cent or 12 per cent in total....
...That deal set a benchmark for elite clubs....
...Barrack’s comments come after Brent crude, the international benchmark, climbed above $90 per barrel last week for the first time since October, driven by fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East....
...He was a day-one investor in venture capital giant Sequoia Capital, as well as other leading private capital groups including Benchmark Capital and Hillhouse Investments....
...The benchmark CSI 300 index finished 2023 down more than 11 per cent, with 90 per cent of foreign inflows to Chinese equities piling back out by the end of the year....
...Benchmark’s voluble partner Bill Gurley last week took to X to suggest that the Mangs had found a new way to “goose [their] revenues”. “Expect a massive mess in the end,” he predicted....
...investment opportunity in Venezuela because bonds that faced trading restrictions . . . are now free to trade,” he said, adding the potential normalisation of Venezuela’s weighting in JPMorgan EMBI Index, a benchmark...
...The package they clinched on Thursday included a $4.25bn loan that pays an interest rate just 3.25 percentage points above the Sofr floating rate benchmark, a level far below the threshold considered last...
...Google said Gemini scored more than 90 per cent on an “industry standard” benchmark that assesses so-called large language models, the technology underlying generative AI products....
...After 15 years there are no categories where a majority of active managers beat their benchmarks....
...Terry Smith, the founder of Fundsmith who is considered one of the UK’s best-known fund managers, was paid £31mn last year, despite his biggest fund underperforming its benchmark for much of the past three...
...You often see outperformance,” Mohr added, referring to an anomaly in the Chinese market that often allows synthetic ETFs to beat their benchmarks....
...It’s probably a similar story elsewhere, especially at places like Argus Media, which provide benchmark and pricing data. News revenues are difficult to cleanly disaggregate. We hope....
...And lo (Alphaville’s emphasis below): Our benchmark results suggest that LLMs generate conditional inflation forecasts with lower mean-squared errors (MSE) than a more traditional source of forecasts —...
...As a result last week tumbling bond prices pushed yields on benchmark 10-year Treasuries to a 16-year high of nearly 5 per cent....
...The four “credit Vix” indices, which have been developed by exchange operator Cboe Global Markets and benchmark provider S&P Dow Jones indices, will track volatility expectations over the following month...
...2022 was yet another year where a majority couldn’t beat their benchmarks....
...It locked in borrowing costs 3 percentage points above benchmark interest rates instead of an expected 3.75 percentage-point spread....
...The loan will pay roughly 7.25 percentage points above the benchmark interest rate and was offered at a slight discount to par....
...Virtu’s shares have fallen almost 10 per cent this year even as benchmarks such as the S&P 500 have rallied....
...Because Research Affiliates’ Rob Arnott reckons benchmarks like the S&P 500 can be improved to make better index funds....
...Brent crude oil, the international benchmark, has fallen about 10 per cent in the last week, hitting a low of $70.12 a barrel on Monday morning shortly after UBS’s government-backed takeover of Credit Suisse...
...Bids have reached the second round; Winslow said the Bay Area franchise’s expansion fee is “the benchmark from here”. Is the league profitable?...
...But Microsoft’s advantage in applying the latest large language systems has at least given it a chance to establish a benchmark in terms of quality and cost....
...Shares in Intercontinental Exchange, which owns NYSE, fell 2.2 per cent on Tuesday, compared with a 0.1 per cent decline in the benchmark S&P 500 index....
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