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...This month rating agency S&P Global downgraded Ecuador’s outlook to negative from stable, arguing the crime wave could hit reforms....
...The S&P 500 utilities sector logged a 4 per cent rally this week, the sharpest rise since September....
...Net debt to earnings before nasties was just 1.2 times at the last record date, reports S&P CIQ. Taking that ratio up to 2.5 times would be no great stretch, supplying almost $2bn of firepower....
...“One person told me that the inmates at the white-collar prison are gigantic, huge Shkreli supporters,” he says....
...Prices: Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +42.20 (+0.20%) at 20,642 Topix down -0.90 (-0.05%) at 1,660 Hang Seng up +258.38 (+1.03%) at 25,421 ASX 200 down -5.51 (-0.10%) at 5,664 US markets S&P 500 up +16.89...
...(Reuters) S&P $1.4bn penalty Standard & Poor’s settled government accusations that it inflated ratings of mortgage-backed investments, which helped feed a Wall Street frenzy that brought the world economy...
...(Reuters) S&P $1.4bn penalty Standard & Poor's settled government accusations that it inflated ratings of mortgage-backed investments, which helped feed a Wall Street frenzy that brought the world economy...
...at 811.13 Hang Seng up +0.70% at 21,426 Shanghai Composite down -0.14% at 2,354 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +1.12% at 529.70 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +1.17% at 5,587 Currencies €/$ 1.31 (1.31) $/¥ 79.06 (78.90...
...+1.26% at 530.42 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.77% at 5,564 Currencies €/$ 1.31 (1.31) $/¥ 79.05 (78.90) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.25 at 119.86 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.32 at 102.63 100 Oz Gold...
...at 751.45 Hang Seng up +1.21% at 18,295 Shanghai Composite up +0.06% at 2,385 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.88% at 466.81 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.93% at 5,084 Currencies €/$ 1.38 (1.37) $/¥ 76.68 (76.80)...
...up +1.26% at 468.61 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +2.02% at 5,139 Currencies €/$ 1.39 (1.37) $/¥ 76.78 (76.80) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.34 at 110.81 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.32 at 88.66 100 Oz...
...Corrections Corporation of America, the biggest by market capitalisation, has outperformed S&P mid-cap stocks by more than 40 per cent in the last five years....
...“So I thought I would put together a portfolio of S&P 500 stocks, with 85 per cent exposure, then used OEX [the S&P 100 index] positions as a hedge.”...
...The S&P 500 indexalso briefly dipped to 1,055, below the trough reached on May 6, when shares made a sudden 5 per cent drop....
...We are keeping them in the safest area,” P.S.M Charles, the government agent for Vavuniya, told a press conference at the camp. As Ms Charles was leaving, a group of camp inmates approached her....
...It invade(s) the privacy of the whole audience”....
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