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...But, as S&P puts it when explaining why U.S....
...And while corporates have been the dominant buyers of equities over the past year, there’s $6tn of dry powder sitting in money market funds that could be dislodged by lower interest rates: The S&P 500’s...
...First, they tried McKinsey’s statistical approach on S&P 500 companies, and found no significant relationship. Second, they fault McKinsey’s methodology....
...The perimeter of the financial junkyard is defined by a rating of BB+ from Fitch and S&P, and Ba1 from Moody’s....
...Virtu’s shares have fallen almost 10 per cent this year even as benchmarks such as the S&P 500 have rallied....
...Grabinski calculates that on a trailing 12-month basis, S&P cost growth has outstripped revenue growth for the fourth month in a row....
...One market-watcher we spoke to yesterday, Mark Hackett of Nationwide, thinks the S&P 500 is fresh out of technical support, and will need better fundamentals to rise much higher. What say you?...
...The swath of problems listed by Snap’s CEO triggered a more broad-based sell-off, with the S&P 500 down 2 per cent on Wall Street and the tech-heavy Nasdaq falling nearly 3 per cent....
...&P 500 energy index....
...Despite the apparent progress towards making Wednesday’s coupon payments, rating agency S&P Global downgraded Russia’s credit rating to double C late on Thursday, citing “reported difficulties meeting debt-service...
...Shares in the asset manager rose 5.7 per cent on the day the deal was announced, and this year they have nearly doubled the S&P 500’s performance....
...all are trading at least 50 per cent below their listing prices, despite a steady rise in the S&P 500 index....
...The blue-chip US S&P 500 has soared by almost a fifth this year, reaching a new all-time peak this week....
...MSCI and S&P have different methodologies for how indices are constructed, as well....
...It is at risk of a downgrade by rating agency S&P Global if it spends more than $20bn on spectrum and its earnings are flat this year....
...The estimated cost of €100m- €500m would account for a big chunk of earnings, which RWE forecast in the range of €2.7bn-€3bn for 2020, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...The S&P 500 pharmaceuticals, biotech and life sciences index has outperformed the broader S&P 500 index this year, while the Nasdaq biotech index has done the same....
...Key for Centrica is maintaining its Baa2/BBB credit ratings with Moody’s/S&P, which we think is possible....
...We also index the S&P 500 to its February 2020 high....
...Both were surprising at the time and both targets were cheap. GILD is also cheap at 12x P/E....
...S&P and Moody’s dominate the market and their financial performance has soared. In their last quarterly results to September, both reported a leap in profits....
...Here’s Goodbody: Cranswick provided a Q1 trading update this morning reporting a strong start to the year with c.19% LFL sales growth (25% inc. acquisitions)....
...Facebook, for example, was docked to a rating of 21 out of 100 last year by S&P Global, which worried about its privacy and transparency standards....
...The fund manager owns shares worth $306m in CoreCivic and $335m in Geo, according to S&P Capital IQ, the data provider....
...Mark Grant, chief global strategist at B Riley FBR Inc in Fort Lauderdale, Florida “My target for the S&P 500 by year end is 3,382 and the 10-year yield at 1.70 per cent . . ....
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