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...Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 fell 0.8 per cent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gave up 1.5 per cent....
...First of all, it will surprise few that it's been a no-good year for hedge fund hotels like Netflix, Amazon and a motley crew of Chinese ADRs, and that has inflicted some nasty losses on many big players...
...Indeed, of the six monster tech companies, Apple is the only one with positive shareholder return since tech peaked in late 2021, and the only one that has not lagged the S&P 500....
...That’s a lower proportion than the S&P 500, which has 13 stocks above the 10 per cent short threshold. And from 461 companies in the Stoxx 600 ex UK, 28 are heavily shorted....
...The answer is provided by Leo Strine and Dorothy Lund in their recent paper. Corporations are huge funders of the political system: they should stop....
...“The EM label serves to obscure what really is [a] motley crew of very different markets,” said Lamont....
...And equities did well, with the S&P 500 delivering a real total return of 9.1 per cent a year between 1952 and 1972, which is even better than it has done in the last 20 years....
...(FT) Taxation without representation American tax policy is skewed in favour of whites, argues Emory University law professor Dorothy Brown....
...“I read something on Motley Fool that said it’s safer than most airlines because it has less debt.”...
...“Explorationists are, by their nature, optimists and there tend to be a lot of them in the E&P sector and perhaps there is a tendency to too often give them the benefit of the doubt,” said Mr Stanton....
...According to The Conference Board, five of the 12 S&P 500 chief executives who were fired last year were #MeToo-related....
...This time, as they battle to save their Arcadia group, owner of Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, Tina’s been splurging again. This time, though, she’s channelled her spending for a good cause....
...Dorothy woke up to discover it had all been a bad dream. Investors will hope that they also have a happy ending....
...This has led Dorothy Lund, a law lecturer at the University of Chicago, to suggest that passive funds should be restricted from participating at company votes....
...Soon afterwards, Samsonite folded its fund into Wells Fargo’s simpler S&P 500 index fund....
...Finally, Matthew Vincent writes: Dorothy Thompson, the immaculately suited chief executive of FTSE 250 power group Drax, does not look like someone who knows how to cut wood into optimally-sized biomass...
...You pick what you can from a motley collection of unloved leftovers and hope to be pleasantly surprised....
...The pub had been in Joe’s wife’s family for 100 years, but sadly Dorothy had passed away before him....
...Not everyone is convinced that a motley crew of random do-it-yourself quant can do any better than existing quant hedge funds stuffed with PhDs, pointing out that the noise-to-signal ratio will be sky-high...
...“It’s a long day, watching a correction, the S&P crashing through the floor. I bought the XIV, ’cause I’ll make my money back. I’m a bad boy, ’cause I bought even more. Now XIV is free falling....
...This morning, chief executive Dorothy Thompson said: “Delivering reliable renewable electricity remains at the heart of our business....
...Intraday In the US, the S&P 500 is set to open 0.2 per cent lower later on Wall Street....
...An election is expected to result in the centre-right coalition walking the plank, possibly to be replaced by a motley coalition including the Pirate party....
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