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...The stock has gained nearly 40 per cent over the past 12 months, outpacing the S&P 500’s 20 per cent rise....
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...In the land of the free (underwritten by VCs), the S&P 500 dropped 1.7 per cent also, with mega cap tech, small caps and cyclicals bearing the most pain. Why?...
...The three joined from the S&P 400 benchmark of midsized companies and will switch places with tax software group H&R Block, Coty, a beauty company, and Kohls, a department store, which are dropping to the...
...Ostwald at ADM Investor Services says the latest corporate bond buying initiative from the Fed sends a worrying message “that financial markets are not functioning, and that it sees the need to bailout USA Inc...
...Key for Centrica is maintaining its Baa2/BBB credit ratings with Moody’s/S&P, which we think is possible....
...That’s around 62 times forward revenue, according to data from S&P Capital IQ....
...Shoppers have defected to trendier rivals such as H&M and Zara. The rise of ecommerce has added to the pressure....
...US equity valuations have reached more sensible levels, with the S&P on a forward price/earnings ratio of about 15 times, close to the mean for the past decade....
...Equities In New York, the S&P 500 ended 0.4 per cent higher at 2,809, its best finish since early February, having fallen 0.3 per cent in early trade....
...H & R Block, meanwhile, was the biggest decliner on the benchmark index, tumbling nearly 19 per cent to $24.04 after issuing disappointing margin guidance....
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...S&P Dow Jones Indices no longer allows companies with multiple share classes to join various indices including the S&P 500, the index of large US companies....
...The information technology sector of the S&P 500 has led US stock market gains this year and last, which left it vulnerable to profit-taking after the Facebook fallout....
...Japan Tobacco, which makes Winston and Camel cigarettes, also suffered from the failure of P&H, which was responsible for the distribution of around a quarter of JTI’s cigarettes in the UK....
...But since then, the S&P 500 has overtaken it (see chart above)....
...In the past five years, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook, four of the largest companies in the S&P 500, have generated a cool $293bn in free cash flow, according to Bloomberg....
...They now pay effective tax rates of more than 30 per cent versus more than 25 per cent for the broader S&P 500 index, he estimated....
...Futures tip a mild start for western markets with the FTSE 100 set to rise 0.2 per cent and the S&P 500 expected to open flat....
...The S&P 500 looked to extend its “perfect week” after the benchmark index, which closed at a record high each day last week for the first time in nearly 20 years, edged up again on Monday The S&P 500 rose...
...“A big question is whether and how Alibaba will continue without Jack Ma,” Joseph P.H. Fan, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told the Nikkei Asian Review....
...The S&P 500 retailing index notched up 0.7 per cent gains, ahead of the broader index which moved 0.1 per cent higher to 2,468.11....
...That compares with a near 29 per cent drop year-to-date and 3 per cent last year for the S&P 1500 department store index....
...Shares in H&R Block jumped 12.5 per cent to $24.23 after the tax preparer lifted its quarterly dividend by 10 per cent to 22 cents a share....
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