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US employment
US jobs growth of 303,000 outstrips forecasts and weighs on rate cut bets
...Stocks advanced, with the S&P 500 closing 1.1 per cent higher to recoup almost all of its fall on Thursday that marked the biggest drop since mid-February....
April 5, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: Global M&A drought ends as blockbuster deals double in first quarter Premium content
...Futures contracts tied to the value of the Vix index — the so-called fear gauge that measures expectations of near-term swings in the S&P 500 — are pricing in a rise in market stress in the weeks before...
March 28, 2024
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
World
FirstFT: Uber chief unlocks $136mn in shares
...Khosrowshahi was hired in 2017 from Expedia, where he was once the best-paid chief executive in the S&P 500....
February 29, 2024
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Jørn Utzon, Led Zeppelin and Ivy League
...Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
January 12, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Swamp Notes — Is it the economy, stupid?
...Inflation is down, jobs are up, and the S&P 500 is continuing its joyride. And that must mean that voters are feeling pretty good about President Joe Biden, right? Right?...
February 10, 2024
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
Best books of 2023 — Science fiction
...Relentless Melt by Jeremy P Bushnell (Melville House) A pair of unconventional amateur detectives investigate mysterious goings-on in early-20th-century Boston — but what appears to be a straightforward...
November 14, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Disrupted Times
Inflation eases in the US and eurozone raising hopes of rate cuts
...Shares in New York were higher in late-morning trading, with the S&P 500 up 0.2 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 0.4 per cent higher....
March 1, 2024
Data visualisation
And the winner is…
...Chart 1 is the market cap of the Magnificent Seven (aka the Yankee GRANNNOLASS) as a percentage of the S&P 500. Yeehaw!...
February 26, 2024
US economy
US economy defies recession fears with 3.3% growth in fourth quarter
...US stocks and bond prices moved higher on Thursday, with the S&P 500 gaining 0.5 per cent....
January 25, 2024
Oil & Gas industry
Chesapeake and Southwestern in talks to form largest US gas producer
...Chesapeake produced 3.4bn cubic feet of gas a day in the third quarter of 2023, according to S&P Capital IQ; Southwestern produced 4bn cu ft/d....
January 5, 2024
News in-depthParamount Pictures Corp
Redstone and Ellison plot complex finale to Paramount family drama
...“They’ve been burning cash throughout the last year or so,” said Oliver Vande Stouwe, an analyst at S&P....
February 2, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Biden and Xi meet in San Francisco
...And equities, well, the S&P 500 ended the day up nearly 2 per cent. [MUSIC PLAYING] Russia’s workforce is shrinking and it is shrinking fast....
November 15, 2023
Due Diligence
Succession watch at LVMH Premium content
...The company subsequently grew by acquiring other companies and counts Platts, part of credit rating company S&P, among its competitors....
January 24, 2024
Letter
Letter: Caution is the watchword before investing in Japan
...James HanshawZurich, Switzerland...
October 30, 2023
Exchange traded funds
ETF industry observers advise caution when adjusting portfolios
...He pointed to the latest updates to long-running research by S&P Dow Jones Indices which shows that over 15 years more than 90 per cent of actively managed large-cap funds underperformed the S&P 500, and...
March 1, 2024
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
Where leaders in investment and finance meet
Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
US economy
Moody’s lowers outlook on US debt to ‘negative’
...Political brinkmanship over the debt ceiling was also the reason for S&P’s credit downgrade of the sovereign in 2011....
November 10, 2023
Asset allocation
2024: Investors bet on inflation’s retreat as markets head into volatility
...The S&P 500 is up around 23 per cent over the year — the tech-heavy Nasdaq up 41 per cent....
December 15, 2023
The Week Ahead
Opening arguments begin in Trump trial
...Communications Q1 Tuesday Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill speaks at the London campus of the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business EU, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, UK, US: S&P...
April 21, 2024
Environment
Petrochemical glut makes new plastic cheaper than recycled
...James Wilson, senior analyst at market intelligence provider ICIS, said the recycled plastics market would continue to underperform for the foreseeable future....
January 15, 2024
FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: economy and trade
US seeks to thwart Russia’s ambition to become a major LNG exporter
...“It’s not possible,” said Laurent Ruseckas, a gas expert and executive director at S&P Global....
November 12, 2023
UK economy
UK business activity grows faster than forecast
...James Smith, economist at ING, said the figures were “another signal that the consensus among economists going into this year, which suggests the UK will underperform most major European economies in 2024...
January 24, 2024
US economy
US downgrade greeted with Washington outrage and bond investor calm
...The S&P 500 stock index closed 1.4 per cent lower on Wednesday....
August 2, 2023
Unhedged
What investors should know if Trump wins in 2024 Premium content
...To put this notion to the test, I ran screens (using S&P Capital IQ) of the S&P 500 big-cap and the S&P 600 small-cap indices....
November 8, 2023
Retail & Consumer industry
Consumer groups look for ways to revive growth as price rises ease
...“The way to maximise delivery is to invest consistently in marketing,” said James Edwardes Jones at RBC Capital Markets....
March 3, 2024
European banks
Rate rises hand European banks a €100bn windfall
...Outgoing Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman last week also told the Financial Times that he expected the European discount to start to narrow....
December 29, 2023

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