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...Pulte has been one of the best- performing stocks in the S&P 500. Never pick stocks, even in a stupid stockpicking contest, on the basis of superficial research....
...The US S&P 500 had a rough 2022, for sure. But it is still up by more than 50 per cent in the past five years. No major European index can come close to that....
...The film was 1979’s Murder by Decree, starring Plummer as Sherlock Holmes and James Mason as Dr Watson....
...As soon as Dr Anthony Fauci uttered the magic words, stock markets surged....
...So, Dr Mullane said, it was hard to draw too many conclusions....
...Additional reporting by Mamta Badkar, Eric Platt and Hannah Kuchler in New York...
...Meyer Generation Atomic (US) Ben Heard Bright New World, (Australia) Letter in response to this letter: Global investment in nuclear is in stark decline / From Dr Paul Dorfman et al...
...Letter in response to this article: A child psychiatrist is something very different / From Dr Joel S Richman, Grey-haired Clinical Psychologist, Hoffman Estates, IL, US...
...My love of quizzing has since earned me a slot on Radio 4’s Today programme — if you tune in at around 6.50am, you will often wake up to sound of one of my morning maths puzzles....
...Sign up here to Market Forces, our daily analysis of what’s moving global markets Job moves Morgan Stanley has hired back one of its top dealmakers, Eric Bischof, two years after he left for rival...
...would let banks take a round trip at the ECB’s expense / From Dr John Whittaker, Lancaster University, UK...
...In 2009 Google’s then-chief executive Eric Schmidt left Apple’s board. Last year Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey stepped down from Walt Disney....
...S&P Global analysts reckon the equivalent figure for JAB’s purchase of Dr Pepper Snapple is nearly six times....
...Add on the sale of Bayer’s Coppertone sun care and Dr Scholl’ s foot care product lines, also outlined on Thursday, and Bernstein arrives at a total take of about €7bn....
...In 1965, two Norwegian sociologists, Johan Galtung and Mari Holmboe Ruge, pointed out that the speed of the news cycle affects what we see as news: “To single out one murder during a battle where there is...
...Overall, global M&A has now crossed above $800bn, which puts it just barely behind 2000’s pace....
...The writer is a science commentator Letter in response to this article: Science advances through academic freedom / From Dr Joel S Richman, Hoffman Estates, IL, US...
...On financial markets, a drop in the share prices of US-listed insurance companies pulled down the S&P 500 slightly in Thursday trading....
...The S&P 500 homebuilder index was up 2.7 per cent by midday and if it holds on to these gains, it would clock its best day since July 8....
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...Additional reporting by Sam Fleming in Washington DC and Eric Platt in New York....
...On voting day, Republican candidates Dr Ben Carson and Senator Ted Cruz popped in to canvass voters....
...The company fell short of its 2008 aim to double the size of its business every three years in Mr Krummenacher’s region — which includes Angola, DR Congo and Kenya....
...DR Horton, the biggest homebuilder by revenue, climbed 1 per cent to $23.43 and shares of Lennar Corp, the biggest homebuilder by market cap, gained 2 per cent to $45.30....
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