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...S&P Global’s US composite purchasing managers’ index was the trigger for the sell-off....
...At the end of 2021, Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street, the three biggest index fund providers, together control on average 18.7 per cent of S&P 500 companies, according to Lazard....
...The value of a property depends as much on the ability of people to pay for it, ie on the health of the economy, as in the actions of the property owner....
...Index funds are vehicles that simply attempt to mimic a market benchmark — whether the FTSE 100, the S&P 500 or developing country bonds — as cheaply as possible....
...It has allowed those who missed out on lucrative business in passively managed exchange traded funds (ETFs) — dominated by the big three: BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Global Advisors — to catch up...
...“As the volatility picks up and the indices plummet the rumours start to swell,” says Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors....
...The biggest ETF, in fact, is State Street Global Advisors’ $240bn SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, which tracks the S&P 500, according to data from ETF.com....
...When I rejected Mr Most’s proposal, he turned to State Street Global Advisors, which formed the SPDR (Standard & Poor’s 500 Depository Receipts)....
...Cisco dropped 16.2 per cent to $20.52, pulling down the S&P 500 information technology index by 1.8 per cent....
...At the close, the S&P 500 was down 0.4 per cent, or 4.78 points, at 1,297.52. The Nasdaq Composite was down 0.8 per cent, or 16.20 points, at 2,147.75....
...The first ETFs mimicked big stock indices such as the Standard & Poor’s 500, and ETFs based on the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Russell 2000 continue to be the most heavily traded stocks each day in the entire...
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