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...Email me with that or, if you are anyone else, with your finest market musings: katie.martin@ft.com. Dealing with the dividends doubters So, I’m not saying Daniel Peris got lucky....
...By contrast, the S&P 500 is up 25 per cent....
...Ark set out to have a portfolio that has little overlap with the Nasdaq and the S&P 500....
...“With almost a quarter of S&P 500 market capitalisation in the top 1 per cent of stocks, many investors are overexposed to mature US mega cap technology companies.”...
...katie.martin@ft.com...
...Vomiting Camel Formation in the S+P.Bearish. pic.twitter.com/1hBJZZxkY4— Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) October 11, 2018 Look out below....
...James Edwardes Jones, analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said: “Schneider is a newcomer....
...Analysts at Barclays took a gloomy view of the “unhelpful” move by S&P, noting that it is “another source of market share loss....
...Now, as then, currently fairly EM-friendly market sentiment should provide support....
...Frankly, I would be surprised to see S&P upgrade – logic suggests they await the outcome of the presidential elections, plus see how the Trump/US-Putin relationship pans out....
...The S&P index has undergone a decline, but this has been small in the context of the stellar gains of 2017....
...Mongolian markets have been under the cosh since the finance minister said the country’s coffers were in a “deep state of crisis”....
...S&P says: In fact, economic growth in South Africa has been on a downward trend since 2011. Feeble economic prospects have weakened the sentiment of domestic and foreign investors....
...“Our sovereign ratings refer to the sovereign’s ability and willingness to service financial obligations to non-official creditors,” said S&P Global Ratings credit analyst Christian Esters....
...The authorities also have yet to develop an effective communication channel with the market to convey policy intent, heightening financial volatility....
...currencies), and partly because they lack “air support” from governments, such as structural reforms to boost competitiveness and the efficiency of labor markets....
...S&P credit analyst Cindy Huang said: We downgraded Noble because of the company’s volatile earnings and high trade risk position, as reflected in its large marked-to-market loss in 2015....
...Index futures suggest the S&P 500 will recover 5 points to 1,937 later on Wall Street....
...real estate market....
...But earlier this week, the IMF (no less) said that markets were “over-reacting, seeing a lot of scary things”....
...Stock markets across Europe have fallen, with the CAC 40 down 1.9 per cent, and the DAX down 3.1 per cent. S&P Dow Jones Indices describes 2015 as a “commodity catastrophe.”...
...This morning, the yen is flat at Y113.81 per dollar, while the yield on 10-year JGBs is down 3.4 basis points at -0.039 per cent....
...” writes Katie Martin....
...S&P notes that emerging markets default rates escalated over the course of 2015, reaching a six-year high of 25....
...US index futures suggest the S&P 500 will rise 12 points to 1,902 later in New York....
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