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...In contrast, the S&P 500’s price-to-book ratio is close to the record 5 times it touched in 2021 and 2000 (the Nasdaq’s P/B ratio is close to 7.5 times)....
...the S&P 500 index, falling 26.4 per cent last year....
...But S&P expects prices to rise just 0.5 per cent this holiday season, compared with the “blistering” retail inflation of 6.1 per cent seen in 2022....
...Goldman Sachs’ chief operating officer of asset and wealth management Laurence Stein retiring at the end of the year....
...“We had a lot of ‘amend and extends’ in September in the loan market,” says Nick Kraemer, head of ratings performance analytics at S&P Global Ratings, “but not necessarily a lot of defaults.”...
...The total value of the UK’s bonds borrowed by investors to wager on a fall in prices last week dropped below £65bn, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence — its lowest level since at least...
...Goldman Sachs forecasts that spending on buybacks by US S&P 500 companies will this year drop 15 per cent to $808bn and dividends will rise 5 per cent to $628bn as weak earnings growth constrains the total...
...US futures were tipped to open flat, with the blue-chip S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq poised to make minimal gains....
...Sticking in the S&P 500 all that time would have delivered annualised returns of 9.76 per cent, but missing the 10 best days would slash that annualised return to 5.6 per cent....
...We are seeing a drought this year, which has hit S&P Global and Moody’s. In contrast, more boring businesses like consumer banking are surging with rising interest rates....
...Looking at the overall speculative-grade US debt market, S&P Global Ratings said that “much will depend on the depth or duration of the recession” in 2023. How uplifting....
...In the supply chain rankings of 2007, P&G, Toyota and Walmart all had a peer ranking score at least double that of Apple....
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...Hedge funds overall have shed 5.6 per cent, far less than the S&P 500’s 20 per cent drop, bolstered by strong performing quant and macro funds....
...Daniel Yergin, vice-chair of rating agency S&P Global and an energy markets expert, said he had never seen such a focus on geopolitics in 25 years of coming to the annual meetings....
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...In 2019 it generated a 58 per cent net return, about double the S&P 500....
...An S&P 500 chief executive holds office, on average, for less than 10 years....
...Morten O. Ravn: Hopefully not....
...of the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund, and panels featuring experts from PensionDanmark and S&P Global....
...The number of M&A deals in the asset management industry jumped to a record 253 last year, according to Sandler O’Neill, but this is likely just the beginning of a long, profound bout of consolidation that...
...Back to the crosswords The following people are winners of the Monday and Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065...
...While the stock is still underperforming the benchmark S&P 500, the gap between the two has narrowed dramatically since the start of the third quarter....
...Meanwhile, activity in Europe decreased to 48 campaigns, down from a record 57 in 2018. 20 per cent of activist board seats went to female directors, compared to a rate of 46 per cent for all new S&P 500...
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