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...That helped fuel a rally in US government bonds and stocks, with the S&P 500 closing at its highest level since last summer....
...“They definitely have lowered their expectations about what they are getting in the near-term,” said Julia Coronado, a former Fed economist now at MacroPolicy Perspectives....
...Shares in Whitehaven Coal fell as much as 5 per cent while Coronado Global Resources dropped as much as 6.2 per cent....
...Shares in BHP Billiton slipped 0.4 per cent while the S&P/ASX 200 closed up 0.5 per cent....
...(The Hotel del Coronado, which is near a major US naval base in San Diego, wasn't included in the sale to Anbang due to Cfius concerns.)...
...The latest nationwide S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index showed San Diego prices climbed 7.4 per cent in the year to December, the sixth-fastest growth of any city in the country....
...Josefina Vidal, the Cuban diplomat who has led negotiations with the US over the past two years, was not her normal unflappable self last week....
...The failure of Ardennes #1 follows recent successes in the deep waters of the Gulf, including the Shenandoah 2 and Coronado wells, led by Anadarko and Chevron respectively....
...The smaller independent explorers have not disappeared altogether: Venari Resources has a stake in both Shenandoah and Coronado....
...While the S&P 500 index fell 16.5 per cent from peak to trough in the latest market correction, the shares of 10 companies with large pension deficits identified by JPMorgan fell by 26.6 per cent....
...On Friday in New York, the S&P 500 rallied 1.7 per cent for a weekly fall of 0.7 per cent, while the pan-European FTSE Eurofirst 300 shed a more modest 0.3 per cent....
...Over the past four quarters, the total R&D expenditures of S&P 500 companies (based on the approximately 200 companies that report them quarterly) declined 13 per cent – from a total of $43.1bn in the fourth...
...Late in New York the S&P 500 had closed up 1.8 per cent; the Nasdaq Composite rose 1 per cent while the Dow Jones Industrial Average put on 1.5 per cent ....
...“Nothing in this report would cause the Fed to consider easing rates any time soon,” Ms Coronado said....
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