Hints and tips:
...Credit rating reviews from Moody’s on April 26 and S&P on May 31 could result in downgrades....
...Tiles HY trading statement Thursday France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK: S&P Global final services PMI data EU: S&P composite PMI data UK: March international reserves data US: monthly trade balance...
...Forget the S&P 500, and the frenzied excitement of recent weeks as the US index flirted with record levels. The FTSE MIB index of Italy’s 40 biggest stocks is where the real boom story is at....
...That’s the Italy/Germany 10-year bond spread, from this story. That’s the percentage by year of large-cap domestic equity funds underperforming the S&P 500, and wasn’t in a story....
...Eurozone businesses were still struggling with weak demand at the start of this year, according to a survey of purchasing managers released by S&P Global last week, which found activity continued to decline...
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200, Mexico’s S&P/BMV IPC and Brazil’s Bovespa are a little way off peaks set over the past three months....
...early 1970s — before slipping a fraction to 32.1 per cent at the end of 2023, according to data from S&P Dow Jones Indices....
...As key markets hunker down for a long weekend, the S&P 500 index of blue-chip US stocks has wrapped up the first quarter of this year with a gain of 10 per cent, on top of the 11 per cent climb in the final...
...The domestic stock market index, the ASE, is up almost 40 per cent over the past year, outperforming the S&P 500....
..., Japan, UK, US: S&P Global flash manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Japan: Chain Stores Association March supermarket sales UK: ONS March public sector finances and Kantar...
...That compares with 6.8 per cent at Volkswagen, on S&P Capital IQ estimates. Being big also means that necessary investments, in new models and R&D, are less of a drag....
...The supplier delivery times index, part of the S&P Global purchasing managers’ index (PMI) survey published on Thursday, fell below a score of 50 in both economies in January, reflecting that a majority...
...Economic data: November insolvency figures and the GfK Consumer Confidence Survey are due in the UK today, also S&P Global/Cips December purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data for manufacturing and services...
...Moody’s is already a notch more bearish than peers S&P and Fitch, which have confirmed their ratings in recent reviews. A downgrade would widen the gap further, which would be unusual....
...France has not managed to achieve a surplus in its primary budget that excludes interest costs since 2008 and rating agency S&P Global this week forecast that on this measure its deficit would remain one...
...Nikkei/S&P Global publishes November manufacturing PMI for India. Japan announces unemployment figures for October and manufacturing PMI data for November. South Korea releases November trade data....
...Today, about 70 per cent of companies in the S&P 500 stocks index pay a dividend, but generally a slender one....
...Private equity firms were sitting on a record $2.59tn in cash reserves available for buyouts and other investments as of December 15, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...to GDP on a slight downward path,” S&P said....
...Households and small businesses would have the option to repurchase impaired loans made between 2015 and 2021 that were sold by banks to third parties by the end of 2022, according to S&P Global....
...Also, UK Finance publishes its monthly card-spending statistics US: NAHB Housing Market Index Conference: S&P Global’s CERAWeek energy industry gathering, with speakers including ExxonMobil’s chair and...
..., Japan, UK, US: S&P Global/Caixin/HCOB February services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data South Korea: preliminary Q4 GDP figures (AM local time) UK: HM Treasury publishes data on official holdings...
...The writer is chief strategist global gas at S&P Global Commodity Insights Will Europe go back to Russian gas? The EU has vowed to give up once and for all its “addiction” to Russian gas, but will it?...
...Over the past decade the total return on the S&P 500 of more than 200 per cent is three times higher than the UK market....
..., UK, US: S&P Global/HCOB services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) figures Indonesia: Q4 GDP figures Mexico: Constitution Day holiday....
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