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...Heavily-dilutive fundraisings, and the resulting share price falls, have helped swell the number of US-listed companies trading below $1 to 517 as of Thursday’s close, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence...
...Thursday’s small gain left the S&P 500 up 10.2 per cent this year, while the Nasdaq Composite has added 9 per cent....
...The Nasdaq Composite, which pushed past its previous 2021 peaks on Thursday, ended Friday up 1.1 per cent while the S&P 500, which has enjoyed several new peaks in recent weeks, added 0.8 per cent....
...Despite Thursday’s so-so performance, the S&P will close out the quarter with its best start to the year since 2019, up about 10 per cent....
...In the US, the S&P 500 has added 7.9 per cent....
...Wall Street ended lower on Thursday as stronger than expected producer prices undermined an early rally, leaving the S&P 500 to close down 0.3 per cent....
...Wall Street ended lower on Thursday as stronger-than-expected producer prices undermined an early rally, leaving the S&P 500 to close down 0.3 per cent....
...Since a painful 10 per cent correction between July and October, the S&P 500 has risen more than 25 per cent....
...So far the rethink on rates has done little to cool stock markets, with the S&P 500 index of blue-chip stocks up 7.4 per cent this year — helped by the strength of the US economy and excitement about the...
...They’re beating out big companies like Tesla and popular ETFs like the S&P 500. This activity has caught the attention of major public exchanges and traders....
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...Jennifer Croft, as it happens, is well-placed to imagine: she has translated, among others, Olga Tokarczuk, a very real Nobel Prize-winning Polish author (the pair shared 2018’s International Booker)....
...Hopes for capital raising have been bolstered by a stock market rally that has lifted the S&P 500 index to a record high, gaining 27 per cent since a late-October low....
...The S&P 500 index of blue-chip companies is up more than 9 per cent since the start of the year....
...The benchmark S&P 500 has climbed 19 per cent in six months, while volatility — a threat to would-be floats — has remained low....
...Stocks have rallied strongly this year, with the blue-chip S&P 500 enjoying its best start to a year since 2019, having risen 10.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2024....
...The S&P 500 has yet to eclipse its intraday high for 2023, which was reached in July. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.6 per cent on Friday to a four-month high....
...Stocks had been poised to open higher but the S&P 500 dropped 0.2 per cent in early trading after John Williams, head of the New York Federal Reserve, said that rate cuts were not the priority for policymakers...
...At the Birmingham end of HS2’s axed 2a and 2b phases, Conservative mayor Andy Street; at the Manchester end, Labour’s Andy Burnham....
...Otherwise, no look at 2023 can skip the Magnificent Seven tech stocks which account for more than half of the S&P 500’s gains this year....
...So far this year, the S&P banks index is down about 12 per cent, while the benchmark S&P 500 has risen more than 13 per cent. An index of regional back stocks has lost almost a quarter of its value....
...By mid-afternoon, the S&P 500 was up 0.3 per cent, breaking a three-day losing streak but still down 1.4 per cent for the week for its third worst start to the year in the past decade....
...Biotech Illumina was the Nasdaq 100’s best performer on the day, up 5.3 per cent....
...Their research found that since the project was greenlighted in 2017 planning applications in a 1.5 mile radius of HS2’s new stations and depot in the West Midlands rose by 66 per cent compared with just...
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