Hints and tips:
...With my colleagues Oliver Ralph and Eric Platt, I put this question to Warren Buffett, Berkshire’s chair, in an interview five years ago....
...The value of short positions against Argentine bonds lent by international custodian banks is currently $41mn, a sharp increase from $25mn ahead the mid-August vote, according to data from S&P Global Market...
...A: Sean Combs/P Diddy/Puff Daddy/Puffy/Diddy Which high street lender has Nigel Farage opened accounts with after being cut off by Coutts?...
...The chances of (c) are impossible to estimate, even granting that Putin looks weaker now....
...The blue-chip US S&P 500 has soared by almost a fifth this year, reaching a new all-time peak this week....
...Warren Ackerman, analyst at Barclays, said the market was already growing before the pandemic....
...Lest we forget, Warren Buffett made a cool $1m by betting that the S&P 500 would outperform a basket of hedge funds chosen by Jeff Tarrant, the founder and chief executive of Protégé Partners over a 10-year...
...Kadhim Shubber Elizabeth Warren Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Few names strike fear into the heart of Wall Streeters like that of Elizabeth Warren, the fiery Democratic presidential candidate...
...A $10,000 stake in shares in Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett’s company, would have grown to $315,000 over the same period, while an S&P 500 tracker fund would have increased to $131,000 (including dividends...
...This pattern is replicated within the rating silos of double B, single B and triple C paper that comprise the high-yield market....
...Yet these incidents are rare considering 48 per cent of CEOs in S&P 500 and FTSE 350 companies are on social media....
...The fund manager owns shares worth $306m in CoreCivic and $335m in Geo, according to S&P Capital IQ, the data provider....
...More strikingly, the poll found 80 per cent of those executives think that C-suite incentives should be more closely tied to long-term stakeholder metrics, rather than to shareholder returns alone....
...The average price on global emissions is currently $2 a ton, a tiny fraction of what is needed for the 2°C target, the IMF said....
...Citigroup is the first of the US banks to report on Monday and in all nearly 60 companies in the S&P 500 are expected to report results. Here’s more on this week’s earnings....
...And in the past five years the US’s vice fund has moved only sideways, despite a strong rise in the S&P 500....
...Headhunters say Hong Kong’s staid banking sector is seeing a jump in recruitment as newly licensed virtual banks from start-up WeLab, Standard Chartered and ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance, seek to snap up...
...S&P 500 financial stocks have gone up 35 per cent in the past year, twice as much as the index....
...Organic sales growth of the 50 biggest consumer companies — headed by Nestlé, P&G, PepsiCo and Unilever — has fallen sharply, from 7.3 per cent in 2011 to minus 0.7 per cent last year, according to OC&C,...
...At the same time, billionaire investor Warren Buffett expressed confidence in winning his $1m charity bet that over 10 years an S&P 500 index tracker fund would outperform a hedge fund portfolio after fees...
...Since the split was announced in late September, though, Alcoa’s shares have continued to underperform the S&P 500 index....
...“Where you find misuse is often at companies where there seems to be in the C-suite a certain sense of entitlement,” she says....
...In all these years these numbers underperformed the US S&P 500 index, although many in the hedge fund industry argue it is unfair to make a direct comparison between the two....
...But whenever C and P visit we know we have to completely de-carb the meal. Malabi is a happy solution — a simple milk pudding that you find in many Middle Eastern countries....
...One 2011 study by Taylor C Boas, F Daniel Hidalgo and Neal P Richardson found: “Firms specialising in public works projects can expect a substantial boost in government contracts — at least 8.5 times the...
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