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...The stock had risen 27 per cent over the past five years to Tuesday, compared with a 64 per cent rise in the S&P 500 oil refining and marketing index over the same period....
...The single largest ETF by assets is State Street’s SPDR S&P 500 index tracker, but BlackRock and Vanguard offer 15 of the next 16....
...On the equity side, small-cap stocks continue to be the story: while the S&P 500 has shrugged, the Russell 2000 is up 6 per cent since Jay Powell started talking....
...Data provider CFRA noted that the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) lost 12 per cent in the year to December 11 while the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF (EMXC) was up 12 per cent over the same period....
...The benchmark US S&P 500 index has barely budged since the Hamas attack on October 7....
...Ignoring gains for megacap growth stocks, the S&P 500 rose just 1.4 per cent in the first three months of 2023, said UBS....
...When the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher privatised the water monopolies in 1989, she wiped out their debt....
...Margaret Ennis, 54, an office assistant from Brooklyn, was planning on cutting her Christmas shopping by half compared with last year because of higher food costs....
...On Thursday, the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election will be held in the seat vacated by former Scottish National party MP Margaret Ferrier, who was suspended from the House of Commons for breaching...
...We do get involved in small ‘p’ political strategy and implementation.” Blair’s regular advice is simple. “One of the first things I say to any prime minister or president is ‘do you have a plan?’...
...As Goldman Sachs’ Alec Phillips says, with Alphaville’s emphasis below: 2. The downgrade contains no new fiscal information....
...Previous guests include Margaret Atwood, Esi Edugyan and Anthony Horowitz....
...There are only three S&P 500 staples stocks that offer dividend yields higher than the 5.22 per cent available on a three-month Treasury (they are Altria, Walgreens Boots, and Phillip Morris)....
...October 16 to 19; further information and tickets here Sport Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix The Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit is the hub for this thrilling motorsports event....
...The S&P 500 was 0.2 per cent lower at pixel time....
...Fans of Margaret Thatcher might be interested in two paintings of Chequers, the official country house of UK prime ministers, that Thatcher commissioned from British artist Jonathan Warrender in 1982....
...Rachel Phillips, solicitor in the London office of JMW Solicitors, says this may be a case of maternity discrimination....
...Angela Rippon, the newsreader, prances gaily in a chiffon dress; Margaret Thatcher smiles as only she can....
...“It’s still a bit of a hidden gem compared to regions like Yarra Valley, Margaret River and the Barossa.”...
...S&P, the rating agency, has negative outlooks for two-thirds of the UK water companies it rates — indicating the possibility of downgrades as the result of weaker financial resilience....
...Three decades ago, Margaret Thatcher’s notorious hard man caused outrage by telling reporters — me among them — that immigrants needed to show their loyalty to Britain by cheering for the England cricket...
...Lawmakers narrowly averted a default in 2011, but only after an S&P downgrade to the government’s creditworthiness and a market rollercoaster....
...Bidding closes 24 June Novels marked-up by their own authorsChristie’s, London Fancy owning an “extensively” annotated first edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale?...
...It’s Me, Margaret. Additional contributions by Gary Jones and Emily Goldberg...
...Phillip Tetlock for the pointer....
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