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...Sandy Rattray: The formula was such that you couldn’t hedge it. There was no liquidity in S&P 100 options....
...Indeed, five of the other top-10 sellers among the current crop of executives at Wall Street’s big six banks are at JPMorgan....
...Here are the one-year returns from a sample of them, plus the S&P 500: The standout performer, the God Bless America ETF, picks mid- and large-cap stocks by first excluding “companies that make left-leaning...
...Shale producers dominated the list of best performers on the S&P 500 last year....
...The S&P is having a great year. So the idea is still further down the line if and when this mythical recession does hit....
...The S&P 500 has now closed at a record high 65 times this year, according to S&P analyst Howard Silverblatt — the second-highest total in history. 2....
...Chart of the week Like vampires, Freddy Krueger and goldbugs posting dual axis charts of US M2 overlaid with the S&P 500 on Twitter, the Bloomberg Terminal refuses to die....
...John Van Reenen, Ronald Coase chair in economics at LSE: The UK will lag behind other developed countries....
...in the S&P 500....
...The S&P 500 is down only 7.6 per cent since the pandemic hit the US and Europe. The Nasdaq Composite has recovered almost all its losses....
...“Unless we see a domino effect of bankruptcies and fiscal/monetary failing to calm the current credit stress, the floor for S&P 500 is at 1,800 in our view.”...
...Assuming bond yields climb modestly to 1.5%, the S&P 500 forward P/E will equal 19.4x and the S&P 500 will trade at 3400 (+9%), as lower bond yields offset lower earnings....
...The Covid-19 vaccine(s) will prove a shot in the arm for both the UK economy and its peers....
...Peel Hunt’s John Stevenson is less confident....
...P 500 futures contract....
...- John Dizard...
...chance of the S&P 500 being down 12 months from now, which is more than three times the random probability of losing money"....
...The PowerShares ETF PKW, which holds the most reliable buyback companies, has been underperforming SPY, the most popular ETF tracking the S&P 500, for a while now: But it is hard to portray any great shrinkage...
...Q2 — 353, 46, 618, 30, 877, 235, 98, 24, 107, 188, 673 are successive large powers of an integer x modulo a 3-digit prime p. Find x and p (without using a computer)....
...Brussels is unlikely to take kindly to Italy’s fiscal plans, and the expected war of words is likely to affect bond spreads further, particularly with Moody’s and S&P ratings reviews due later this month...
...The S&P 500 has essentially restarted 2018, with Feb-March washing out January, but S&P price levels in late January show the type of upside that is likely for full 2018 if S&P earnings per share (EPS) deliver...
...At the risk of sounding flippant, the main reason it bounced so much, with the S&P 500 enjoying its best day since August 2015, was because it had fallen so much before....
...In our benchmark-free strategies, we recently restructured our last material net U.S. equity exposure — our Quality strategy — as a long/short position against the S&P 500....
...For context, Tuesday’s 1.09 per cent move in the S&P was equivalent to the median daily move in the S&P throughout the crisis year of 2008....
...On this basis, the S&P 500 refused to stage a convincing rally but — perhaps more important for market technicians — it is not falling through the levels that are regarded as critical lines of resistance...
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