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...Zurich’s P&C business also suffered from higher claims in US crop insurance, where dry weather hit yields. Greco highlighted the recent drought in Nebraska....
...This means 106 minutes of watching Javier Bardem, Constance Wu and Scoot McNairy mugging, gurning and capering about as they pretend to react to the antics of a human-sized bipedal crocodile named Lyle,...
...Constance Devernay-Laurence, a dancer of penetrating dramatic intelligence, has more to say as Swanhilda opposite Dr Coppélius....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.2 per cent after having lost ground in each of the past four trading sessions, while Brent crude, the global benchmark, was up 1.2 per cent at $58 by the close in New York as conflict...
...anniversary over the weekend — when the show is open to the public rather than just trade — by displaying aircraft including two second world war bombers, the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-25 Mitchell, a P-...
...Analysts at Sterne Agee downgraded GoPro from “buy” to “neutral” and lowered their price target from $21 to $10....
...Only eight out of 94 stocks in the S&P 400 financials index have performed more poorly over the past six months than Stifel, which has dropped 13 per cent....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 is down 2.2 per cent, putting it on track for one of its biggest one-day drops this year (the largest in 2015 was a 4.1 per cent tumble on August 24)....
...Forward earnings ratios had been looking toppy at almost 17 times for the FTSE-100 in April, according to S&P CIQ....
...Stifel, with a market capitalisation of $3bn and total assets just below $10bn, announced late on Monday that it would acquire the bond and retail brokerage businesses of smaller rival Sterne Agee for a...
...On Wall Street, a rally in oil prices – its biggest jump in a month – and hopes of new efforts from Beijing to boost the economy buoyed the energy and materials sectors on Monday, sending the overall S&P...
...Overall, the S&P 500 index ended 0.3 per cent lower at 2,097.97 as investors sold off positions in the energy sector, which fell 2 per cent as Brent crude slipped below $50 a barrel on concerns of excess...
...(FT) Markets at 05:23 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +22.70 (+0.11%) at 20,460 Topix up +3.63 (+0.22%) at 1,663 Hang Seng down -162.18 (-0.57%) at 28,088 US markets S&P 500: -1.03% at 2,104 DJIA down...
...The S&P 500 gained 0.5 per cent to 2,102.06, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.6 per cent to 18,057.65. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.4 per cent to 4,995.98....
...“As far as we’re concerned, Under Armour just needs to keep doing what it’s doing because the results are impressive,” said Randall J Konik, an analyst at Sterne Agee....
...Lululemon Athletica received a boost from analysts at Sterne Agee....
...The S&P 500 Energy index has climbed almost 7 per cent in February, outpacing the 5 per cent jump in the wider S&P 500 this month....
...The sector’s advance on Monday follows a lacklustre performance over the past year, with the sector trailing the S&P 500 in 10 of the past 14 months, according to Sterne Agee....
...Since the year’s start, the S&P retail select industry index has declined 3 per cent. Gap shares climbed 6 per cent to $42.55....
...“Gap’s much anticipated fall assortment – the first with the entire design team in place – was billed as the harbinger of a turnround,” Ike Boruchow, an analyst at Sterne Agee, said....
...The S&P 500 is now more than 3 per cent below its peak and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down on the year....
...Analysts with Sterne Agee said the results, which were aided by sales of clearance merchandise, demonstrated “improving fundamentals”....
...Analysts with Barclays, Sterne Agee and Citi cut price targets, sending the shares 7 per cent lower to $79.44....
...Carter Worth, a technical analyst with broker Sterne Agee, said Friday’s decline in the S&P 500 was a day of “above average importance”: For the market to open strongly on Friday (and not just any market...
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