Hints and tips:
...His response: I think the financial result would be very close to the same . . . if you want to join something that may have a tiny expectation of better [performance] than the S&P, I think we may be about...
...The S&P 500 isn’t at such extremes today....
...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)....
...In contrast, the S&P 500’s price-to-book ratio is close to the record 5 times it touched in 2021 and 2000 (the Nasdaq’s P/B ratio is close to 7.5 times)....
...The S&P 489 has a weighted average P/E of 24, cheaper than the whole index, but not by much....
...That trails a 165 per cent gain by Buffett over the same period and a 211 per cent total return by the S&P....
...We’ll just note that S&P currently rates Paramount Global one notch above junk with a stable outlook....
...“As far as I know, The Henderson seems to only accept tenants of top-notch quality,” says Ricky Tsang, director of corporate ratings at S&P....
...Looks like S&P Ratings doesn’t find “attestations” especially convincing, either....
...Likewise, S&P Global Mobility surveys suggest stable EV loyalty, measured as the share of EV owners whose next car was an EV, especially for Teslas....
...The S&P 500 is not yet quite as expensive as it was in the zero-rate, fiscal bonanza, everyone-has-loads-of-cash glory days of 2021. But it is getting closer....
...S&P this month downgraded Thames Water’s top-ranked class A debt to BBB-, the bottom rung of investment-grade, just one notch above junk....
...That said, I assert that this chart is actually quite interesting: That is the total return of the S&P 500 sectors since this current rally began in October 2022....
...What is the trailing P/E ratio of the top-10 stocks in the S&P 500 today? They are more overvalued than the top-10 were in the tech bubble....
...P Global Q3, Papa John’s Q3, GoDaddy Q3, Moderna Q3, Marriott International Q3, Prudential Financial Q3, Tata Steel Q2 Shell Q3 Friday UK, S&P Global/Cips UK services PMI UK, the British Retail Consortium...
...The value of short positions against Argentine bonds lent by international custodian banks is currently $41mn, a sharp increase from $25mn ahead the mid-August vote, according to data from S&P Global Market...
...Markets do not snooze through Thanksgiving week, as Morningstar pointed out yesterday: for the S&P 500, the three-day holiday week has the average swing of plus or minus 1.5 per cent, about the same as a...
...Grabinski calculates that on a trailing 12-month basis, S&P cost growth has outstripped revenue growth for the fourth month in a row....
...Of the 11 sectors in the S&P 500, materials is expected to take the worst earnings hit, with a 35.6 per cent decline forecast....
...First, using data provided by the great Howard Silverblatt of S&P Indices, here is a chart of the year-over-year change in dollars spent on buybacks by companies in the S&P 500 index, plotted against the...
...Robin Wigglesworth . . . on this one, I’ll take the Norwegian questions. You do the S&P 500 questions. Alexandra Scaggs The S&P is a multinational index. Robin Wigglesworth Yes....
...Then I make my way down the plush C-suite corridors back to the elevator. Follow This is a movement of 9,000 shareholders in oil and gas companies....
...The total value of the UK’s bonds borrowed by investors to wager on a fall in prices last week dropped below £65bn, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence — its lowest level since at least...
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Manufacturing: S&P Global publishes its manufacturing purchasing managers’ indices for the EU, UK and US while the US Institute for Supply Management publishes...
...Unlike the flat S&P 500, the Roundhill meme-stock ETF has had a bumper month. It’s up 10 per cent in July, and up nearly 60 per cent on the year....
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