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...The basket of blue-chip US stocks rose as high as 5,000.4 on Thursday, seconds before closing the session 0.1 per cent higher at a record 4.997.91....
...The basket of blue-chip US stocks rose as high as 5,000.4 on Thursday, seconds before closing the session up 0.1 per cent at a record 4.997.91....
...ICE) and S&P....
...Even after Friday’s rise, the S&P is up just 1.5 per cent in January, compared with a 16 per cent rally over nine consecutive weeks of gains from late October....
...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)....
...Oil prices swung through the day with Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, down almost 1.5 per cent earlier, but recovering to stand 0.1 per cent lower later in the US day at $90.33 per barrel....
...Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500 stock index closed 1.2 per cent lower, its sharpest daily decline since the middle of February, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 1.4 per cent....
...A similar picture holds for forward price-to-sales (2.9 in 2021 vs 2.6 today vs 1.9 historically)....
...Goldman estimates that the median short interest in S&P 500 companies is still remarkably low at 1.7 per cent, but is up from 1.5 per cent at the end of 2021....
...The Mag 7 re-invests 60% of their cash flow from operations through growth capex and R&D. This reinvestment rate is more than double the 26% of the Tech Bubble 5 and about 3x that of the S&P 493....
...The 10 largest stocks constitute 34 per cent of the S&P 500’s return over the past year, higher than at any point in the 1990s....
...Just look at Roche (down 15.8 per cent in 2023, and a further 4.6 per cent year-to-date in 2024) and Nestlé (down 9 per cent and 5.1 per cent over the same periods)....
...Group revenue fell 3 per cent in the quarter to £5.6bn, missing estimates for £5.8bn, after a poor end to the year for the investment bank, which reported trading revenues down 18 per cent....
...-5.5 per cent....
...A week ago, the main US stocks benchmark, the S&P 500, cracked through to a record high, clawing back to the previous high-water mark struck two years ago. On Monday, it set a new even higher record....
...But if we map that trend on to 2023’s year-end close of 4,769, it puts the S&P 500 north of 5,400 in December....
...The S&P 500 rose by 0.2 per cent after federal data showed that prices increased more slowly than expected in November, putting Wall Street’s benchmark share gauge within 1 per cent of the all-time closing...
...Also on a multiple of sales, L Catterton’s offer looks underwhelming — just 1.7 times this year’s revenues. For reference, the buyout group recently floated Birkenstock at 5.5 times sales....
...Bank of America argues Europe’s economy remains fragile and will weaken as the effect of the ECB’s rate rises continues to feed through....
...However, buffered ETFs tend to be considerably more expensive than plain, vanilla ETFs — most passive ETFs tracking the S&P 500 charge less than 0.1 per cent, while Innovator, First Trust and Allianz generally...
...The average yield on conventional investment-grade bonds has risen from 2.5 per cent at the start of 2022 to 5.2 per cent today, according to Ice BofA data....
...These power-hungry operations will together consume more than 480 terawatt hours of electricity, or almost a tenth of total US power demand, by 2035, up from 4.5 per cent in 2025, according to S&P Global...
...US firm Global X has two products in the UK that do exactly this, for either the S&P 500 (ticker XYLU) or the Nasdaq 100 (ticker QYLD)....
...Using a scoring system that ranges from 0.5 (or pure guessing) to 1 (perfect choices) over nine questions, FT readers scored a 0.73 while superforecasters scored 0.91, using their responses from February...
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