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...Over the past decade the total return on the S&P 500 of more than 200 per cent is three times higher than the UK market....
...Its chair, Klaus Schwab, is apparently in good health, but he is in his 86th year. Will Davos survive him? I’m not altogether convinced....
...Analysts had expected profits of ¥925.6bn, according to S&P Capital IQ....
...“The probability increases month by month that more and more firms will go out of business,” said Klaus Wohlrabe, head of surveys at Ifo, a think-tank, warning that almost 12 per cent of residential construction...
...“Shortages appear to be easing in many industries,” said Klaus Wohlrabe, head of surveys at Ifo. “This will shore up the economy in the months ahead,” he added....
...What to watch today Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz meets Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis for talks in Bucharest S&P Global releases its eurozone manufacturing PMI for March....
...The quake, which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale, caused huge destruction, levelling thousands of buildings and sending people fleeing into the streets....
...The highest price of the evening was $33mn for Gerhard Richter’s 1994 “Abstraktes Bild” ($37mn with fees, est $35mn)....
...Emmanuel Dubois-Pelerin, head of utilities for Emea at S&P Global, says he had expected more coal power stations to restart given the demand....
...This week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos should have been a triumphant one for its host, Klaus Schwab....
...Instead, we are in for a rather bumpy start,” said Thomas Richter, BVI chief executive....
...It has even underperformed the S&P 500, and by a considerable margin....
...“First and foremost, it’s the politics which are driving markets,” said Klaus Baader, global chief economist at Société Générale....
...The global economic picture has proved to be somewhat brighter than some investors had feared several months ago, said Klaus Baader, global chief economist at Société Générale....
...Described in 2003 by its then-mayor Klaus Wowereit as “poor but sexy”, it is still sexy but no longer so poor....
...Although the US is miles behind Europe on ESG, 75 per cent of the S&P 500 sent data to CDP, said Mr Simpson....
...Read Gillian Tett’s conversation with Klaus Schwab on the WEF’s future....
...The rating agency S&P downgraded its forecast to negative in December, citing “large spending deviations by the previous government” and a “volatile policy environment”....
...P.J. Morton tried to channel Fats Domino and Wonder; Rapsody took on Queen Latifah, Roberta Flack and Lauryn Hill; and Sheléa crudely belted Sarah Vaughan, Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin....
...The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at record highs on Monday....
...Looking solely at the S&P 500, that number jumps to nearly 60 per cent....
...Klaus Jacob, geophysicist at Columbia University, questioned whether New Orleans should be rebuilt after Katrina, given the city’s growing long-term threats....
...Narnia meets P T Barnum in Steier’s allegorical production....
...Klaus Winker, who works in communications for a German bank, has lived in the Bahnhofsviertel since 2012....
...In Hamburg, 100 litres of the fuel costs approximately €76, Klaus Bergmann of the Esyoil consultancy said last week, while in Stuttgart prices are closer to €100....
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