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...Apple, on the other hand, was until recently the largest company by market cap (now it’s Microsoft), and it is still almost 6 per cent of the S&P 500....
...“Berkshire has become a great company. Though I have long been in charge of the construction crew, Charlie should forever be credited with being the architect.”...
...So they are an insurance company for insurance companies. They do have a primary property casualty insurance unit, but mostly they’re reinsurance....
...Ever since, the promise of eye-watering returns has enticed pension plans, endowments, insurance companies, private banks and business tycoons to pump $5tn into the industry....
...Kate Duguid, US capital markets correspondent A profile of the actress who plays Flo in the Progressive ads by Caity Weaver in New York Times gets at the nature of advertising, the insurance industry and...
...She is the company’s first outsider and first female CEO, one of only 52 women leading Fortune 500 companies....
...“It’s the nature of things that a very intelligent man working hard maybe gets three, four, five really good long-term opportunities of buying great companies at a cheap price,” he said....
...In December, GSC Game World, the developer of upcoming survival shooter game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, reversed plans to offer NFTs after a vociferous backlash from fans....
...Danny Blanchflower: The Great Recession of 2008....
...Only about half of insurance companies disclosed a low-carbon transition plan and only half of those companies were taking action with their underwriting portfolios, CDP said....
...Not so great for Liberty Global and Telefónica, Virgin Media and O2’s respective parent companies....
...Zuckerberg went on to defend his company in several hearings in Washington by touting its firm stance on free speech and American values....
...So one of the questions we got was: are Tesla cars the new iPhone, i.e, are they going to be so disruptive to the industry, they're so far advanced that they're going to put all of the competitors out of...
...Hooray, says JP Morgan Caz: [O]verall we see this as a reassuring message to the UK insurance industry....
...Today’s chapter of the Great Perpetual Motion Flight-to-S***e Rally of 2020 looks like this: Chemring’s leading the FTSE 250 gainers on interims....
...And although China’s pharmaceutical industry has matured a great deal in recent years, it is still far better at incremental innovation than breakthroughs....
...Against the general trend, yesterday Ferrari confidently guided to a V-shaped recovery in its P&L from H2/20....
...• Funds flow to equities relative to bonds has never held up this well (given performance and low bullish sentiment) because: i) bonds risk no longer diversifying, and ii) pension/insurance companies’...
...Here’s Commerzbank: Equity markets staged a decent rally last week with e.g. the S&P 500 up 10.4% w/w, and weekly trough to peak performance exceeding 20%....
...CG top picks: • Senior producers: Newmont, Pan American Silver, B2Gold • Intermediate/Junior producers: Teranga, Dundee Precious Metals • Royalty/streaming companies: Wheaton Precious Metals 12:10pm...
...As well, over 50 companies in the S&P 500 have already suspended their share repurchase programs, which accounted for over 25% of buybacks in 2019....
...Fifty years ago it was all the rage for American business icons to be driven by fear of microbes into becoming reclusive and now it’s the opposite: Elon R Musk, Tesla Inc: [T]his is the time to think about...
...Over the past 54 years, shares in his company, Berkshire Hathaway, have outpaced the S&P 500 — a broad index of American stocks — by almost 2.5 million percentage points....
...The FT’s John Gapper thinks Buffett may have been blinded by his love of America and everything American....
...(Quartz) The upper crust The median pay for a chief executive of an S&P 500 company in 2017: $12.1m. Most received raises of nearly 10 per cent or more last year....
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