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...Year-to-date things are looking only slightly better, with US equity long/short hedge funds trailing the S&P 500’s continued surge by about one percentage point. That’s all fine....
...Even inside the S&P 500 there is a stark performance disparity between the biggest stocks and the rest....
...S&P Global’s construction purchasing managers’ index rose to 50.2 from 49.7 in February....
...If you take the Magnificent 7 out of the S&P 500, its multiple moves from 22 to 19. The S&P 350 is at 14....
...Traditionally, oil prices go up a lot and stock markets go down a lot. Back in the 1973-74 Middle East crisis, in association with an Opec embargo, oil rose 300 per cent. The S&P 500 index halved....
...The S&P Global/Cips UK construction purchasing managers’ index, a measure of the health of the industry, rose to 50.2 from 49.7 in February, the fourth consecutive month-on-month increase....
...In our view, this probably explains their strong re-rating (forward P/E of 27.2x), and why they are trading at a 110% premium to the STOXX 600 (13.0x)” wrote....
...He pointed to the latest updates to long-running research by S&P Dow Jones Indices which shows that over 15 years more than 90 per cent of actively managed large-cap funds underperformed the S&P 500, and...
...Lunate in May had also launched the Chimera S&P China HK Shariah ETF, a shariah-compliant ETF tracking Hong Kong-listed Chinese equities....
...So far this year, the S&P banks index is down about 12 per cent, while the benchmark S&P 500 has risen more than 13 per cent. An index of regional back stocks has lost almost a quarter of its value....
...They’re going to have a piece of the energy pie, just a bit less of it,” said Thomas Watters, managing director at S&P Global Ratings and another of the report’s authors....
...Seems to me, therefore, that unless I can beat the S&P 500 — in sterling to match my liabilities — I shouldn’t bother. The author is a former portfolio manager....
...Earlier this week, rating agencies S&P Global and Moody’s put Equinox on watch for downgrades deeper into junk territory, fearing that it could face a restructuring if it were unable to refinance the loans...
...The S&P Global/Cips UK construction purchasing managers’ index, a measure of the health of the industry, rose to 49.7 in February from 48.8 in January....
...At the top of the pile is the S&P 500, which is an absolute beast....
...Ørsted, the world’s largest offshore wind developer, has been threatened with a downgrade by credit-rating agency S&P after taking huge writedowns on US projects it abandoned this week.S&P Global Ratings...
...S&P 500 hit an all-time high on Friday but, as my colleagues Nicholas Megaw and Kate Duguid have pointed out, stocks limped to the summit....
...About 24 per cent of Marathon’s shares are out on loan — a strong indicator of short interest, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...Tim Moore, of S&P Global Market Intelligence, said the PMI numbers “provide a strong boost to business activity expectations across the service economy”....
...Many are now snapping up options tied to the S&P that profit if the market keeps on rising....
...Vanke still has an investment-grade rating at S&P and Fitch, the latter of which downgraded it in October, citing weak sales....
...For a stock that is expected to increase earnings below the S&P 500’s average pace this year and next, that’s still a lot....
...Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500 stock index closed 1.2 per cent lower, its sharpest daily decline since the middle of February, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 1.4 per cent....
...But if you’re somebody who makes a living off of big, bold calls and stockpicking then you probably have some explaining to do. Yes, even with the S&P 500 within 1 per cent of a record high....
...600 the S&P 500 was actually quite concentrated....
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