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...The blue-chip FTSE 100 index has climbed 40.3 per cent in the period, while the S&P 500 has advanced 93.5 per cent and the Stoxx 600, a European benchmark, is up more than 60 per cent....
...Via the Twitter account of Julie VerHage (open in Twitter to watch in full): We’re not sure about the veracity of each other’s claims but you must admit, it beats a 20-minute discussion with a John Doe...
...The last music I bought was a selection of jazz: E.S.T....
...Several CEOs of badly affected companies, from Delta Air Lines’ Ed Bastian to Heathrow’s John Holland-Kaye have already forgone some or all of their salaries and bonuses....
...Then credit rating agency S&P downgraded the group’s debt....
...“She ought to be put on trial, not made director of the CIA,” says John Kiriakou, a former covert operator who resigned in 2004, exposed the programme and was later sent to prison....
...John Higgins at Capital Economics noted that Wall Street’s strong run in 2018 — the S&P has notched up 14 record closing highs since the start of the year — has come even as Treasury yields stubbornly grind...
...The metal hit an 18-month intraday high of $1,366 last week. Additional reporting by Michael Hunter in London and Edward White in Taipei For market updates and comment follow us on Twitter @FTMarkets...
...In November 2016 he built a portfolio of S&P 500 stocks that failed to qualify for any of the five big US factor ETFs....
...Wall Street closed at fresh record highs on Tuesday, but the S&P failed to close above 2,600....
...john.authers@ft.com...
...(Wall Street Journal) - John Gapper: Wall St’s Chinese princeling premium. (FT Business blog) - Princelings: Is nepotism a crime?...
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: UP Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +178.96 (+1.16%) at 15,560 Topix up +8.25 (+0.65%) at 1,279 Hang Seng unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 23,366 US markets S&P 500 up +2.87 (...
...Australian S&P 200 pared losses of about 0.3% to be 0.1% lower, after the unemployment rate unexpected fell from 5.4% to 5.2%....
...The top 1 per cent – those earning $366,623 or more – have taken 81 per cent of the fruits of the recovery....
...(Bloomberg) A ‘frank’ fiscal cliff meeting was had by President Obama and John Boehner on Thursday night....
...US futures suggest Wall Street’s S&P 500 will gain 2 points to 1,411, writes the FT’s Global Markets seducer Jamie Chisholm....
...Fiscal cliff talks advance: President Obama made a counter offer to John Boehner’s tax cuts proposal, according to a source close to the talks....
...(Wall Street Journal) OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +165.05 (+1.72%) at 9,747 Topix up +8.35 (+1.06%) at 799.64 Hang Seng up +8.44 (+0.04%) at 22,512 US markets S&P 500 up +0.64 (+0.04%...
...- John Gapper: the US should let Huawei stay....
...Glencore softened terms of its offer for Xstrata, saying it would keep Sir John Bond on as chairman of the mining company as part of the revised offer and retaining the same balanced board structure as proposed...
...P 500 down -0.90% at 1,338 Bovespa unchanged 0.00% at 52,639 Asia Nikkei 225 down -1.44% at 8,366 Topix down -1.56% at 706.46 Hang Seng down -0.14% at 18,877 Shanghai Composite down -0.49% at 2,136 MSCI...
...(Reuters) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: UP Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +58.88 (+0.65%) at 9,062 Topix up +7.02 (+0.91%) at 776.36 Hang Seng up +302.49 (+1.56%) at 19,744 US markets S&P 500 up +3.35 (+0.25%) at 1,366...
...Declines in the S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Select Industry Index, which includes producers such as Chesapeake Energy and Range Resources, have been worse than those of the broader S&P 500 stock...
...Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -113.76 (-1.34%) at 8,366 Topix down -8.77 (-1.21%) at 718.94 Hang Seng down -341.23 (-1.81%) at 18,476 US markets S&P 500 down -20.78 (-1.68%) at 1,216 DJIA down -134.86 (...
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