Hints and tips:
...The stock had risen 27 per cent over the past five years to Tuesday, compared with a 64 per cent rise in the S&P 500 oil refining and marketing index over the same period....
...For Jill Carey Hall, US equity strategist and head of US small and mid-cap strategy at Bank of America, the lower valuations of small-caps bode well for returns....
...Jill Woodworth, former chief financial officer, was awarded total pay of $13.4mn in fiscal 2022, while new chief financial officer Liz Coddington was awarded nearly $8mn....
...Even if the Federal Reserve starts cutting rates as expected, it will still trim small-cap earnings by 24 per cent, according to BofA’s Jill Carey Hall....
...The single largest ETF by assets is State Street’s SPDR S&P 500 index tracker, but BlackRock and Vanguard offer 15 of the next 16....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr — son of the 1968 candidate — has already launched an independent bid, and Jill Stein and Cornel West have mounted their own campaigns from the left....
...On the equity side, small-cap stocks continue to be the story: while the S&P 500 has shrugged, the Russell 2000 is up 6 per cent since Jay Powell started talking....
...Companies in Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index spent $175bn buying back shares in the three months to June, according to preliminary data from S&P....
...Data provider CFRA noted that the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) lost 12 per cent in the year to December 11 while the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF (EMXC) was up 12 per cent over the same period....
...Jill Fisch, a corporate governance scholar at the University of Pennsylvania law school who has published research about dual-class share companies, said S&P’s prohibition on dual-class shares in 2017 did...
...As Goldman Sachs’ Alec Phillips says, with Alphaville’s emphasis below: 2. The downgrade contains no new fiscal information....
...In the last quarter, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Exxon and Chevron — massive cash spinners all — accounted for more than a quarter of all the buybacks in the S&P 500, according to data from S&P Dow Jones...
...There are only three S&P 500 staples stocks that offer dividend yields higher than the 5.22 per cent available on a three-month Treasury (they are Altria, Walgreens Boots, and Phillip Morris)....
...The S&P 500 was 0.2 per cent lower at pixel time....
...Rachel Phillips, solicitor in the London office of JMW Solicitors, says this may be a case of maternity discrimination....
...Lawmakers narrowly averted a default in 2011, but only after an S&P downgrade to the government’s creditworthiness and a market rollercoaster....
...Saturday Indonesia, China’s foreign minister Qin Gang visits Jakarta South Africa, finance minister Enoch Godongwana presents the 2023 budget US, UN Security Council to meet on Somalia US, First Lady Jill...
...Phillip Tetlock for the pointer....
...overseas museums to buy British art is misguided / From Martin P Levy, member of the RCEWA, 1997-2007, London SW1, UK...
...Phillip Kimber, a consumer analyst with E&P Financial Group, said that during the coronavirus pandemic and the 2008 financial crisis, in many markets, including the UK, consumption of alcohol at home increased...
...“There is plenty of trading happening but in terms of order size it has been smaller in recent months,” said Mary Phillips, deputy head of portfolio management at Dimensional....
...The S&P Refining & Marketing index is up nearly 50 per cent this year, even as the broader market has fallen....
...Markets: Futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were up 0.1 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively....
...Markets: US indices are expected to open slightly higher, with S&P 500 futures up 0.3 per cent and the Nasdaq futures up 0.8 per cent....
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