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...Amy Wu Silverman, equity derivatives strategist at RBC Capital Markets, emphasises the problem of timing: From a cross-asset perspective it is very compelling to say “equity vol looks cheap” relative to...
...The recent performance of the S&P 500 highlights the tougher environment, but also shows how some companies can still generate big returns....
...The Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity and BlackRock control more than 20 per cent of the votes of S&P 500 companies....
...If market makers sold a large number of call options that would pay out if the S&P 500 were to rise, for example, they could hedge their position by purchasing S&P 500 futures....
...US bond prices fell and the S&P 500 index dropped 9 per cent over the next month....
...However, Silverman said he would have expected “more intense buying right now”, especially at S&P 500 companies....
...Kevin Barnett, an employment lawyer at Lester Aldridge, said ministers changed the law in 2018 to allow employers to only notify authorities in the country a vessel is flagged in when they were making redundancies...
...The S&P 500 finished 0.9 per cent lower on Friday, taking its losses for the year to 17 per cent....
...“One key theme that has emerged in the first few weeks of the year is the reappearance of hedging activity,” said Amy Wu Silverman, an options strategist at RBC....
...That is exactly what happened in the federal probe Silverman mentions. So bitcoin is pinched....
...“We trade S&P futures all the way to sushi rice futures.”...
...The blue-chip S&P 500 share index fell 0.4 per cent on Friday. The information technology sub-index of the S&P 500 fell 1 per cent, taking its loss for the week to 4.7 per cent....
...On Tuesday, the S&P 500 fell almost 2 per cent, while Apple gained more than 3 per cent without news that would serve as an apparent trigger....
...Luke Ellis was talking to the FT’s Gary Silverman, who comments that US regulators are failing to reel in cryptocurrency 4....
...By contrast, demand for put options on ETFs such as State Street’s SPDR S&P 500 fund — which reflects the broader stock market — have fallen as stocks have dropped....
...“A contributing factor here is the fact that retail call buying demand has dropped like a stone,” said Amy Wu Silverman, head of derivatives strategy at RBC Capital Markets....
...The S&P 500, which counts Apple as its largest constituent, rose 1.6 per cent. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 2.6 per cent....
...When it emerged in early September that Tesla had been spurned in the latest S&P reshuffle, its shares slid....
...Equity Commonwealth, for example, was sitting on more than $3bn of cash at the end of March, according to S&P Capital IQ. “Any day you’re not selling, you’re buying,” Mr Zell says....
...In addition, in March 2016 the risk committee approved an investment by the Company in Cirrix Capital, L.P. without all committee members being aware of the prior investments by the former CEO and the board...
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...But the opacity surrounding the Trump Organization and its ties to foreign money – some of which my colleague Gary Silverman has tried to untangle – mirrors the questions that surround his charitable foundation...
...gary.silverman@ft.com...
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