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...“We’ve now 86’d McConnell, McCarthy McDaniel....
...Harry S Truman was returned to office in 1948, though it was a close-run election (and the Chicago Tribune famously miscalled it for Thomas Dewey)....
...In 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower set up Arpa, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, to provide money to develop technologies for military use and make sure the US would never be out-innovated again....
...Pet owners were trading down from premium to “value” litter, Church & Dwight told investors....
...Visitors can feast their eyes on scripts, historic photos and posters, and costumes including Lena Horne’s glamorously gold sequinned evening gown from 1943’s Stormy Weather....
...While companies like Hershey, Campbell Soup and Kellogg have had monster years, there are companies with solid growth historically, such as Constellation Brands, Tyson and Church & Dwight, that have sold...
...And while the music doesn’t hit the zesty heights of Sanders’ earlier work — the leader says as much on the sleeve — it digs beneath the surface and Dwight Trible’s vocals are a treat....
...Even so, consumer debt levels as a share of disposable national income are still below 2019’s average....
...Who cares if Joan Crawford is outclassed in 1962’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? That’s the film’s point, isn’t it?...
...The last time a departing president refused to attend the swearing-in of his successor was in 1869 when Andrew Johnson boycotted the inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant....
...Raymond McDaniel, Moody’s chief executive, acknowledged at a conference this week that there could be higher US taxes “post election”....
...Revenue at the public companies included in the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index grew at double digit rates for the last four quarters, and ebitda growth reached a seven-year high of 13 per cent in the third...
...These days, an increasing number of them rely instead on Dwight Scott....
...The stability of CLOs has led to remarkable performance: Of the 10,000 CLO notes that S&P rated from 1994 to mid-2018, exactly 38 defaulted. That is a 0.38% cumulative 25-year default rate....
...The S&P 500 closed 0.3 per cent higher on Thursday. But where are all the Chinese tourists?...
...Olsson, Mahon and Cooper on drums and percussion made for a formidable rhythmic unit, bringing an intense uplift in volume to “Levon”’s stirring climax....
...Dwight Scott, president of Blackstone’s GSO credit platform, argued in the Financial Times last week that if a company’s condition deteriorates, investors could in some circumstances forget the covenants...
...Megan Greene and Dwight Scott answer the question on everyone’s lips: Do leveraged loans pose a threat to the US economy?...
...The outstanding value of stripped Treasury bonds has risen $28.7bn this year to $278.6bn, already exceeding 2017’s full-year increase of $25.1bn, according to data from the US Treasury....
...First, the survival of Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s (now known as S&P Global Ratings)....
...Apollo was a project championed by Democratic politicians, derided as “nuts” by one Republican president (Dwight Eisenhower) and cancelled by another (Richard Nixon)....
...The S&P 500 has fallen from a cyclically-adjusted price/earnings multiple of 34 to 31, still more than double the long-term average....
...The bank estimates that nearly one-third of the S&P 500’s profit-margin growth between 1997 and 2014 was the result of rising market concentration....
...The three major US rating agencies — S&P Global, Moody's and Fitch — each assigned the company their lowest investment grade ratings as part of its transformative deal to buy the shoe brand....
...The most successful occupants — from Dwight Eisenhower’s top aide Sherman Adams, to James Baker during the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush — have been characterised as deputy presidents...
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