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...He has been at loggerheads with Unilever’s ice-cream brand Ben & Jerry’s over its stance on Israeli politics....
...Shares have fallen 8 per cent over the past five years, compared with a 7 per cent rise in the benchmark S&P 500 Consumer Staples over the same period....
...S&P Global warned in November of a “poverty trap” in low-income countries hit by climate change....
...The S&P 500 is up more than a third since the start of 2021 and hit record highs this year. Unemployment is near record lows....
...Market breadth, as measured by the number of S&P 500 stocks trading above their 300-day average, has broken above its long-term average. Small caps have outperformed large caps in the rally....
...Unilever is currently trading at 18 times expected earnings, according to data from S&P Global....
...Most large consumer packaged goods groups, including P&G, are still operating on tighter margins than they were before the pandemic....
...And the Mumbai-based novelist and poet Jerry Pinto pulls off a funny and wry coming-of-age novel, The Education of Yuri, about a boy yearning to be a writer in 1980s Bombay....
...Jerry Saltarelli, Houdaille’s CEO, hadn’t even heard of the term “leveraged buyout” until he got the call from KKR....
...Melvyn P Leffler ably examines these issues in this first scholarly history of President George W Bush’s decision to invade Iraq....
...On just under 18 times forward earnings, its shares lag behind Nestlé and Procter & Gamble on 22 and 23 times, according to data from S&P Global....
...S&P currently rates it below that level....
...Yesterday, a judge in New York denied Ben & Jerry’s request for an injunction....
...In 2020, two-thirds of P&G shareholders supported a petition demanding more disclosure for pulp and palm oil use....
...Our Big Read offers some lessons on corporate ethics embodied in the battle between Ben & Jerry’s and its parent Unilever over Israel....
...Corporate giants resist making political spending disclosures Berkshire Hathaway, Tesla and CME Group are among more than two dozen S&P 500 companies that disclose no information about their political spending...
...The dispute has raised questions about the autonomy of Ben & Jerry’s independent board. 5....
...After postings in London and New York, he was poached by Bob Diamond and Jerry del Missier to join Barclays’ expanding investment bank in 2003 as head of equity derivatives....
...Now most S&P 500 companies are run with ruthless efficiency, making leveraged buyouts harder for KKR to pencil out....
...The $30bn will primarily be used to fund a cash payment to indebted AT&T, according to analysts at S&P Global....
...Hedge funds overall have shed 5.6 per cent, far less than the S&P 500’s 20 per cent drop, bolstered by strong performing quant and macro funds....
...Private jet spending rose 35 per cent, totalling $33.8mn among S&P 500 groups in 2021 — the highest since 2012, according to ISS Corporate Solutions....
...“Companies . . . seized on that opportunity to teach this generation that the way to fill that hunger is to go to Ben & Jerry’s and order a cup of ice-cream with a cup of morality on the side,” he argues...
...“Nelson is actually helpful,” says a person close to P&G’s board....
...Apple has marginally outperformed the S&P 500, but with an 11.4 per cent loss it’s hardly something to shout about....
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