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...Avril BaigentWendover, Buckinghamshire, UK...
...The US equity market accounts for an “astonishing” 60.5 per cent of global stock market capitalisation, according to research by Elroy Dimson of the University of Cambridge and Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton...
...Magnificent Seven was Katie Martin’s Year in [two] word[s] 2023, and has been mentioned in 211 FT articles over the past twelve months....
...Trends As well as the seasonal overtones (ice, angel, Turkey etc), there was a further theme to these answers, which could have made it a bit easier. . . the first letters of each answer spell out C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S...
...katie.martin@ft.com Letters in response to this column: FT Weekend helped me complete 2024 stock pick / From Graham Turner, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK One film the Nikkei index probably won’t be copying...
...Letter in response to this article: A loyal customer has a question for boss of Bet365 / From Malcolm Heyhoe, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK...
...Elroy Dimson, professor of finance at Cambridge university’s Judge Business School, has for several years co-authored the finance industry’s definitive almanac of global long-run asset return data, stretching...
...Every year I thank Santa for a fridge full of cooked meat and veg (and M&S trifle), which I “ready steady cook” into exciting new dishes, from Cajun rice stew to ham and sauerkraut croques....
...(NY Mag) — The Credit Suisse/Elroy Dimson/Paul Marsh/MikeStaunton returns yearbook for 2023 (PDF) — Getting included in the S&P 500 leads to lots of awkward attention and deteriorating performance for...
...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....
...“Bennie and the Jets” was the opener, from the album that has given the tour its name, 1973’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road....
...Křetínský’s portfolio includes stakes in the UK’s Royal Mail, grocer J Sainsbury, and West Ham football club as well as German wholesaler Metro and US sneaker chain Foot Locker....
...John Berger, who eulogised the lifestyle of subsistence farmers in the French Pyrenees in 1979’s Pig Earth, would have appreciated the rhythms of village life as it still was in the early 2000s: the set-in-stone...
...The National Security and Investment Act gives the UK government the power to call in transactions it “reasonably suspect[s] give[s] rise to or may give rise to a risk to national security”....
...He turns out to be a receptionist and his table is room2’s version of a reception desk....
...After all, who predicted the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or China’s ham-fisted mismanagement of the pandemic, let alone the fiasco that was the brief premiership of Liz Truss?...
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...Among his positions now are longer-dated puts on the S&P 500 index, designed to offer protection during the US presidential election in November....
...People aren’t coming into the office for a ham sandwich,” she says. Food delivery apps have increased consumers’ expectations of choice....
...“We have guests worried they won’t be able to drive down to their holiday in Devon, let alone make it back up the M5 via M&S for a restorative ham and mustard sandwich,” said Kate Allen, owner at Devon-based...
...So I shifted the balance back to the dull world of market cap, picking the cheapest S&P 500-based ETF I could find....
...The man was a planning officer in London’s East Ham and ended up in a dispute with his superiors, so barricaded himself into the town hall with a shotgun....
...Currently, the cyclically-adjusted earnings yield on the S&P 500 is only 2.6 per cent. This is at crash-warning levels, by historical standards....
...We finish up at Ciampini Roma for the best ham sandwich in the world. L’Archivio di Monserrato, Via di Monserrato 150, 00186 Rome....
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