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...Its five-year annualised return of 2.8 per cent trails almost all mid-cap growth and technology funds over the same span....
...Jana Partners, the prominent US activist fund with around $2bn in assets, announced on Wednesday that it would work alongside Cannae Holdings, a financial sponsor holding company....
...Berkshire cut its stake in the printer and PC maker by almost four-fifths DR Horton was up 0.2 per cent....
...Emanuel will roll his equity holdings into the privatisation alongside other Endeavor executives....
...Bridgewater, which in 2022 lost its place at the top of the all-time rankings to Citadel, fell a further two places to fourth, losing $2.6bn....
...The net bank debt to adjusted cash profits leverage ratio improved from 0.7 times last July to 0.4 times. A manageable debt position supports the company’s hopes for a share buyback programme....
...The net private sales rate rose to 0.59 for the first 10 weeks of 2024 from 0.54 in 2023....
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost 0.2 per cent and mainland China’s CSI 300 added 0.5 per cent....
...“The average quoted two-year mortgage rate shot up to 6.0 per cent in October 2022 following the mini-Budget, whereas it is now 5 per cent. By October we think it will have eased to 4.6 per cent.”...
...In comparison, the equivalent German Bund is up 0.3 percentage points to 2.4 per cent....
...The PEG ratios of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla are 4.6, 1.3, 1.3, 1.2, 2.6, 0.7 and 2.1, respectively....
...The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was down 0.3 per cent. Nvidia was the only Magnificent Seven stock holding on to gains in afternoon trading and was 0.6 per cent higher....
...But the euro later slipped 0.3 per cent against the dollar to $1.0706 while the rate-sensitive 2-year German Bund yield — a benchmark for the eurozone — rose 0.02 percentage points to 2.8 per cent....
...The QIA is Barclays’ second-biggest shareholder, according to Bloomberg data, and the stock sale is expected to reduce its stake from 5.3 per cent to 2.9 per cent....
...The lower three quartiles fall within the range of 0.0 to 0.1 per cent of GDP; the top quartile has a frankly absurd range of 0.1 to 2.5 per cent of GDP. That’s the Seychelles effect....
...ChaPanda, also known as Chabaidao, raised almost HK$2.6bn (US$331mn), with shares priced at HK$17.50....
...Lewis will begin his new role at the Washington Post on January 2, and takes over from interim chief executive Patty Stonesifer....
...It’s convenient that 2000 was a leap year, so identifying them is just about knowing your times tables, without any of the problematic (4n)-2 calculations that might otherwise have been needed....
...Block argued that the losses on the book of loans in the trust could be between about $2.5bn and $4.5bn, close to its market capitalisation....
...However, on Wednesday, the gold price reached a record high of $2,295 per troy ounce. I think that’s a “klaxon” signalling it’s time to examine the reasons for holding it....
...The group agreed this week to take a 26.1 per cent interest in Victory Capital Holdings, a $2.8bn US-listed fund manager....
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...The €84,400 holding accounted for 0.35 per cent of the Ucits fund’s portfolio at the end of 2023, according to Morningstar data....
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