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...The award placed him among the highest paid chiefs in the S&P 500. It also prompted investor disquiet....
...Macy’s, which also owns Bloomingdale’s, started 2022 on strong footing as post-coronavirus lockdown “revenge spending” lifted sales. These gains proved ephemeral....
...The yield on the 10-year US Treasury, which moves inversely to its price, rose 0.039 percentage points to 0.685 per cent....
...Gold for December delivery settled 0.3 per cent higher to $2,039 a troy ounce....
...The retailer, which operates about 680 stores under its namesake brand and Bloomingdale’s, said the locations set to be closed accounted for $1.4bn in combined annual sales....
...Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F Browne, New York; Sean Putnam, Wellingborough, UK; Richard Cauman, Knoxville, US Polymath 1,039...
...Wall Street’s benchmark equity index rallied 0.6 per cent to close at an all-time high of 3,039....
...The benchmark S&P 500 closed 0.6 per cent higher at 3,039.4, taking it past its previous peak of 3,025.9 on July 26 and notching an intraday record of 3,044.1 in the process....
...Analysts with the brokerage Cowen estimate that Macy’s, which in February was stripped of its investment grade credit rating from S&P Global, has enough cash to weather four months of closures....
...Rick Owens, whose styles are usually executed in a Henry Fordian all-black palette and to whom the epithet “gothic” is frequently applied, created dresses for s/s 2020 with beetle-wing iridescence in frosted...
...Sales from overseas travellers declined about 9 per cent in the quarter, hurting Bloomingdale’s, which the company also owns....
...Investors stocked up on retail shares on Monday, with the S&P 500 department store sector advancing for a third consecutive day....
...He added that there was “probably some latent pressure” as a result — especially at higher-end stores, including Macy’s-owned Bloomingdale’s....
...The Nasdaq Composite delivered a similar performance to set a high of 8,030.039, up 0.2 per cent. The dollar index is 0.1 per cent weaker and down at levels last seen in early August....
...Elsewhere, the yield on the US 10-year Treasury, which moves inversely to price, rose 4 basis points (0.039 percentage points) to 2.10 per cent....
...The Geneva Touring S was Swiss-made and it had a big On/Off/Volume knob and a telescopic aerial to give it a retro, 1960s look....
...The yield on the US 10-year, which moves inversely to price, fell 0.039 percentage point to 2.321 per cent....
...Then came James Mackintosh, who wrote 1,039 Short Views (I had thought he was further ahead of me than that)....
...The broad S&P 500 slipped 0.2 per cent to 2,338.2, while the Nasdaq Composite ticked 0.1 per cent higher to 5,857.9. The S&P 500 energy sector faced the heaviest selling, dropping 1.5 per cent....
...Last month the exchange operator said total securities market turnover in October was down 15 per cent from a year earlier to S$19.6bn ($13.84bn)....
...Last month the exchange operator said total securities market turnover in October fell 15 per cent from a year earlier to S$19.6bn (US$13.84bn)....
...The narrower S&P 500 department store index, which includes just Macy’s, Nordstrom and Kohl’s, rose nearly 13 per cent....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 2.8 per cent, more than recouping yesterday’s drop....
...That saw the dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of peers, rise 0.5 per cent yesterday and hold steady in Asia at 96.039....
...US markets S&P 500 up +0.43 (+0.02%) at 2,133 DJIA up +39.44 (+0.22%) at 18,138 Nasdaq up +0.83 (+0.02%) at 5,214 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +17.59 (+1.33%) at 1,342 FTSE100 up +35.81 (+0.51%)...
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