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...Outside of a recession, the concentration of gains in just a handful of large technology stocks is another potential obstacle that could scupper the S&P 500’s winning streak....
...Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown, said M&S’s “bread-and-butter customers” had “higher disposable incomes, which is partly why the chain is showing such resilience”....
...Felipe Perez, Americas director at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said that, while there might be “some politics” at play, price was the crucial factor driving the diesel imports....
...The benchmark S&P 500 dropped 0.6 per cent on Friday, with 54 per cent of stocks falling, and tech the worst performer....
...He worked there from October 2018, and headed the firm’s S&P 500 options desk until his move to Millennium in February. Spottiswood worked for Jane Street from August 2020 to February....
...The recent passage of a constitutional amendment to simplify the country’s complex tax system was broadly welcomed as a step in the right direction, with S&P upgrading Brazil’s sovereign rating one notch...
...Chris Heaton-Harris, Northern Ireland secretary, welcomed the move and said MI5’s assessment process was “systematic, comprehensive and rigorous” and based on the very latest intelligence....
...The domestic stock market index, the ASE, is up almost 40 per cent over the past year, outperforming the S&P 500....
...As Douglas-Pennant at UBS points out, plenty of fund managers are latching on to the phenomenon....
...Personally, I hold Michael Douglas wearing a chunky bottle green jumper over a bare chest in 1992’s Basic Instinct as the pinnacle of V-neck wearing....
...Bally leather Deco Frame S bag (just seen), £2,200. Bijouterie Lignon earrings, model’s own....
...David Herro, deputy chair of US investment firm Harris Associates, said the firm sold its stake in Abrdn last year because it “lacked confidence that management could repair the business.”...
...The Russell 2000 index has risen 24 per cent since the beginning of 2020, lagging behind the S&P 500’s more than 60 per cent gain over the same period. Read the full story. 4....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart....
...US housebuilder Smith Douglas kicked off this year’s IPO efforts stateside this month; its shares are still about 15 per cent above the listing price....
...“We finally started making . . . the S-O-S sign,” she recalled. She suspected that one of the partners who owned the building had locked them out because he did not want to sell....
...Jared Halpern, of Douglas Elliman in New York, has been telling customers that if they take out a mortgage now, they can refinance when rates are lower....
...Harris has to compensate in 2024’s more normal in-person environment by taking up some of Biden’s slack. The more exposure she is given now the better. Harris needs to be prepared to be president....
...In an interview with newspaper Folha de S.Paulo as the trial began on Thursday, the former president said he wanted to stay “100 per cent active in politics” and that any verdict of ineligibility would be...
...One of its leaders, Anjali Douglas, described the survey to me as “a much-needed resource for the industry to draw on. It’s incredibly valuable to have numbers to back up what we already knew.”...
...Who Douglas Elliman/Knight Frank Penthouse, Tribeca, $6.795mn Where At 37 Warren Street in Tribeca, a 15-minute walk from the centre of the Financial District....
...At least a dozen petrochemical facilities are expected to come online in that time period, a third of which will be located in China, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...The S&P 500 hit a new record last week, in part down to the rosy economic outlook....
...Data visualisation by Ray Douglas...
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