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...Referring to the electoral contest that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call in the second half of this year, Macpherson said in an interview with Radio 4’s Week in Westminster on Saturday: “It...
...Major technology stocks, which have powered much of the S&P 500’s advance over the past year, may prove more resilient than some other companies to the impact on the price of US firms’ goods and services...
...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”....
...“It’s been a fucking difficult week,” admitted one ally of Sunak, reflecting on Number 10’s maladroit handling of a dispute over a leading Tory donor, Frank Hester....
...Sunak said in a recent article in the Times that he “understand[s] people’s anger when that dream [of home ownership] feels too far away for too many, especially the younger generation”....
...Business and consumer confidence also expanded with the closely watched S&P PMI survey indicating private sector activity grew at the fastest pace in eight months in January....
...That euphoria has yet to be duplicated, though the IPOs in 2020 saw an average of 50 per cent first-day returns relative to the S&P 500....
...The benchmark S&P 500 dropped 0.6 per cent on Friday, with 54 per cent of stocks falling, and tech the worst performer....
...Her debut, 2017’s Dua Lipa, ranks just above it. Not many pop stars are so radically optimistic about their fanbase’s allegiance that they’ll rip up a formula that isn’t broken....
...Additional reporting by Ray Douglas in London...
...The list of advisers includes Sir Douglas Flint, chair of Abrdn; Sir Ron Kalifa, independent director at the Bank of England; Baroness Shriti Vadera, chair of Prudential; Sir John Kingman, chair of Legal...
...S&P rates EDF as BBB compared with AA for French government bonds....
...I think you have to go back to Alec Douglas-Home. He was not the last prime minister who came back as a . . . Stephen BushIn Heath’s cabinet....
...The domestic stock market index, the ASE, is up almost 40 per cent over the past year, outperforming the S&P 500....
...German perfume and cosmetics retailer Douglas dropped on its debut last month....
...As Douglas-Pennant at UBS points out, plenty of fund managers are latching on to the phenomenon....
...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....
...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....
...Five (Alec Douglas-Home, John Major, Gordon Brown, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak) did so when their party was in a degree of electoral and political trouble....
...Louise Haigh, shadow transport secretary, insisted the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg was “the exact opposite of the levelling up we were promised” and a sign of “chaos” in Sunak’s government....
...Douglas Webster and Douglas Mitchell were particularly grateful in 1929 for the whisky someone had left behind at Corrour, which they used for hot toddies to wash down their “hoosh” (Antarctic survival stew...
...HS2’s burn rate means it is scheduled to consume more expenditure per year than the Highways Agency’s renewals programme for the national road network or Network Rail’s capital programme on an annualised...
...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....
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