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...They were originally seen as a steampunk outfit, albeit one that questioned the Victorian imperial assumptions of the genre — in 2012’s The Mutiny, they revived the story of Tipu Sultan, and sour seasonal...
...The S&P 500 daily percentage changes in the S&P 500 have been under 1 per cent in the past seven weeks, while volumes have steadily weakened — the trailing 30-day average of S&P 500 shares traded has fallen...
...The S&P financials sector opened lower on Thursday in New York, before steadying and moving higher....
...Conversely, a leveraged EFSF will be dangerous for AAA governments given the clear risk sharing across the region, a point made by S&P over the weekend....
...By the close in New York, the S&P 500 was down 0.8 per cent, while the FTSE Eurofirst 300 index shed 1.7 per cent and emerging market stocks fell 1.1 per cent....
...More on Tuesday’s downgrade of Portugal (and, to a lesser extent, Greece) from the excellent Harvinder Sian at RBS....
...On Wall Street, the S&P 500 was up 0.2 per cent at the close in New York, helped by talk of takeover activity among regional banks....
...Here’s Sian Harvinder from RBS: Moody’s has Greece on A1 (=A+ in S&P language) with a watch negative. So how far will they go? A one notch downgrade looks in the bag so let’s call it A flat already....
...On Wall Street, the S&P 500 hit a 2009 peak above 1,120 before easing back slightly to trade 0.3 per cent higher at midday in New York....
...Some definitely have, as the grand villas in Bhamra and the Assad?s fiefdom in nearby Qardaha attest to....
...“The decline was entirely the result of weaker confidence among north American investors,” said State Street strategist Harvinder Kalirai....
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