Hints and tips:
...MSCI and S&P have put companies linked to the Myanmar junta in their ESG products, as my colleague Patrick Temple-West reports this week. But active funds have questionable holdings too....
...: AIB Group FY, Breedon FY, Brown-Forman Q3, Campbell Soup Company Q2, Capita FY, CLS Holdings FY, ConvaTec FY, DS Smith Q3 trading update, Galliford Try HY, Ibstock FY, Legal & General FY, Netcall HY, Nichols...
...Yesterday the S&P 500 closed at its highest level for more than a year, powered by a rally in large tech stocks....
...Investors have left oil and gas in droves in recent years, causing the sector to shrink from one of the biggest hitters on the S&P 500 to representing less than 3 per cent of the index — half of Apple alone...
...Brands; Chubb; Santander; Dixons Carphone; Fresnillo; Lloyds Banking Group; London Stock Exchange; Metro Bank; Nichols; Persimmon; Reckitt Benckiser; WPP; French Connection; J Sainsbury Thursday Altria...
...From the past to the near future, which in Andy Briggs’s Ctrl+S (Orion, £14.99) isn’t nearly as bad as it could be....
...Try to finish it up over days rather than weeks. 19.5% Graham’s, 10-Year-Old Tawny NV Port £20 Tesco, Waitrose, Vintage Wine and Port, Harvey Nichols, Amazon Transparent pale rust red — a much yellower...
...An index of large-cap US department stores has lost 35 per cent of its value this year, making it the worst-performing subsector in the S&P 500 index....
...As do Avast, Unite, Nichols and CapCo. ... Hipgnosis Songs Fund confirms it’s doing another cash call (as we flagged at the weekend). ......
...Darwall's move comes after the appointment, announced in April, of March Nichols as Darwall's successor on two of its funds. Darwall has a two year non-compete contract....
...She cites Steven Soderbergh, who directed Erin Brockovich, and Mike Nichols, who cast her in one of her most challenging roles in Closer in 2004....
...T-Mobile does not feature in the S&P 500 sub-index but Mr Nichols added that the positive news for the company has investors worried about whether rivals AT&T and Verizon, which are in the S&P 500 sector...
...S&P is back in the non-prime market, three years after paying $1.4bn to settle allegations it issued overly rosy ratings on MBS in the run-up to the crisis, in order to win more business....
...PZ Cussons grew 38-fold, James Halstead 22 times, timber merchant James Latham 17 times, Nichols 12 times, and S&U grew 9-fold....
...At 62, he is a papal knight, was named 2017’s Catholic of the Year by The Catholic Herald, and has the kind of connections that add reach to his charitable ambitions....
...On Monday, the S&P 500 rose 0.2 per cent to 2,657.26 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2 per cent to 24,368.82....
...Some leading companies such as Adidas, Hanes Brands and M&S have set out policies of non-interference with human rights defenders, and communicated this to their suppliers....
...The corporate calendar for Thursday includes Anglo American, Sports Direct, Unilever, EasyJet, Nichols and Big Yellow Group ....
...Dom de la Meynarde 2016 Côte du Rhône-Villages, Plan de Dieu 13.5% £10 M&S Truly a beaker of the warm south and a great emissary of the superior 2016 vintage in the Rhône....
...The corporate calendar for Thursday includes Anglo American, Sports Direct, Unilever, EasyJet, Nichols and Big Yellow Group....
...One question for the judges is how durable they think the authors’ analyses of 2017’s shifting technological landscape will prove to be....
...Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour recently what her one key buy for the season would be, Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman recommended the velvet jacket....
...Kim says sales are up four times over their debut season, and the line has been bought by 22 new retailers for S/S17, including Nordstrom in the US and Harvey Nichols and Selfridges in the UK....
...Ellie Nichol of the London-based campaign group Global Witness said that full verification of property ownership details might be too costly to implement....
...Photographs: John Glover/Alamy; RM Floral/Alamy; Gillian Plummer/Gap Gardens; Rob Whitworth/Alamy; Clive Nichols/Gap Gardens...
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