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...S&P 500 dividend yields went as high as 9.2 per cent in the first quarter of 1938, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. Even IPOs paid them, as I read to my surprise in Peris’s book....
...TCI made $12.9bn for investors and ended last year up 33 per cent, ahead of the S&P 500 index’s 24 per cent rise....
...From an exhibit attached to an S-1 it filed last year: PishPosh Baby LLC (“Borrowed’) promises to pay Moishe Hartstein (“Noteholder”) in lawful money of the United States of America, the amount of $1,000,000.00...
...The rest is controlled by a smattering of smaller companies like S&P Global and FactSet. Most of the segments are growing at a respectable clip....
...“When you don’t have your own raison d'être, no ideology, industry, money, or anything of your own, then you don’t have a future....
...Russia also has a decoy force composed of inflatable MiG-31 fighter jets, S-300 missile systems and battle tanks. The Ukrainians have poked fun at them for deflating on the battlefield....
...Honestly, we should have guessed we’d end up there somehow. But you can read the full thing yourself here....
...This one wasn’t realised but the ideas resurfaced in 1947’s Lago Nero ski-lift and lodge (one of the few of his buildings to survive)....
...This typically leads to big cost-overruns and long delays as contractors are incentivised to allow costs to stack up....
...Retirement plans including that of US defence contractor Lockheed Martin are among the backers of crypto prime broker Hidden Road, according to people with knowledge of the matter, providing the financing...
...You probably have to laugh, else you’d cry. But Alphaville, which often does both, was most interested by this section from the SEC’s order: Wha . . . ?...
...In total, the group will now produce almost 6mn b/d less than it could in the first quarter of 2024....
...Given all the fun in banking right now, we’d almost forgotten that other corners of finance have also lost an ungodly amount of money recently....
...But as for hiring . . . we’d love to know the share of non-corporate businesses today that do any hiring (ie workers that aren’t also owners)....
...I never thought I’d say it, but let’s hope other regulators take a leaf out of the FCA’s book. Nevertheless, the volume of complaints is still high....
...— In 2022, Fintech Holdings Ltd. acquired a troubled Puerto Rico bank, renaming it Hamilton International Reserve Bank LLC (“HIRB”)....
...He doesn’t realise if we wanted to grow more than 5 per cent, I’d have to call up all the service contractors; they’re going to charge me 30 to 40 per cent more; it’s going to take a year to build new equipment...
...“I don’t have such a crystal ball that I’d be 100 per cent in cash right now.”...
...If a weak yen were propelling the economy lately, we’d expect manufacturing exporters to benefit. But manufacturing PMIs are in (mild) contraction territory, at 49.8....
...More than six months had passed since he’d bought Twitter, later renamed X, for $44bn....
...Under the proposal, L3Harris, a top-10 US defence contractor, would acquire the code behind Pegasus as well as NSO’s engineers. 2....
...The actual fall in output from the Opec+ group’s lowered target is likely to be closer to 1mn b/d, rather than the headline of 2mn b/d, as many of its weaker members have struggled to hit production targets...
...He praised the mine as “one of the potential largest lithium hardrock mine[s] in the world” on Twitter....
...Where you’d expect to find steel, concrete and masonry, the columns and beams are constructed from a kind of plywood (laminated veneer lumber, or LVL, made predominantly of central-European beech), with...
...So far this year, shares of PepsiCo have outperformed the S&P 500....
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