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...It continues to require members to pursue targets aligned with science-based scenarios in which global warming is limited to 1.5°C....
...Spend a few years in the C-suite of a megabank, however incompetently, and your grandchildren will never have to do a day of work....
...Klein and Michael Pettis China and the Future of Globalization: The Political Economy of China’s Rise by Grzegorz W. Kolodko Angrynomics by Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth Might Nature be Canadian?...
...Trade Wars are Class Wars Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis, Yale University Press, RRP$28/£20 This is a very important book....
...From another Bank of Portugal research paper: Lending rates to the same borrower drop by 64 b.p. in the post-QE period at banks exposed to QE relative to banks not exposed to QE…Loan volumes to existing...
...Traders are effectively betting that dividends paid by members of the S&P 500 stock index will be a little more than 30 per cent larger 10 years from now than they are today....
...By the time they’d finally corrected their earlier errors the world had changed again and they were left looking as foolish as people buying the S&P at a Shiller earnings multiple in the 40s....
...The chart below compares the valuation of the Topix index of larger Japanese companies with the S&P 500 index....
...The big airlines currently trade at an average earnings multiple of about 8, compared to about 26 for the S&P 500. With all that in mind, consider what happened with United Airlines recently....
...The latest figures from S&P show an upward spike in the gap between the returns of the typical stock and the broader market immediately following the election, although this has since reverted: As of the...
...The DoJ’s case against the AT&T/Time Warner deal makes no sense (by Matthew C Klein) The greatest trick the media companies ever pulled was convincing consumers to blame the cable companies for rising bills...
...on March 15The United Nations Security Council approves military intervention in Libya on March 17Portugal’s prime minister offers his resignation on March 23 after losing a vote on austerity measuresS&P...
...starting off at par, yields would need to drop from 3 per cent to about -2.3 per cent.The expansion of earnings multiples on American stocks added about 3.4 percentage points of growth in the price of the S&P...
...Rasmussen’s table: This is better than the public equity benchmark (dividends paid by the S&P 600 small cap energy index were tiny), but not so much better as to arouse suspicion....
...If the ECB declared it would purchase Greek government bonds in size, as it has with most of the other countries in the euro area — including Portugal, which is rated “junk” by Fitch, Moody’s, and S&P —...
...Worse, the slight decline in the price of the S&P 500 masked how most companies destroyed lots of market value, with the broader index propped up by a handful of success stories....
...In 2011, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco made waves when they appeared to find a strong relationship between the US population structure and the PE ratio of the S&P 500....
...For perspective, the EV/EBITDA multiple of the average S&P 500 company is currently around 12, which is towards the high end of the last 25 years....
...Finance academics have found that the average performance of buyout funds after fees is worse than a simple passive investment in the S&P 500....
...Their return of 9.7% in 2014 was below 13.7% for the S&P 500, including dividends....
...True or false: the total returns of US stocks (the S&P 500 total return index) and US Treasury bonds (Barclays long US government bond total return index) have both been negative from December 31, 2014 through...
...Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27 Rodriguez, originally from Puerto Rico, was a car fanatic, according to local media....
...The real Sarao is accused of repeatedly performing a slightly more complex version of this strategy with E-minis (futures contracts on the value of the S&P 500 stock index)....
...We suspect Euro HY managers would rather not be long E&P and just buy another blanket....
...After a few weeks of plummeting bond yields, crashing stock markets, and panicked calls for additional asset purchases by the Federal Reserve, an old friend returned: The S&P 500 gained nearly 2 per cent...
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