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...The S&P 500, the Stoxx Europe 600 and the FTSE All-World index all ended at record highs, and so did Japan’s Nikkei index. Now, this one is a big deal because the record it broke was set 34 years ago....
...The S&P 500 fell about 1.5 per cent. Meanwhile, UK inflation figures are due out today. [MUSIC PLAYING] Over the past week, Arm’s stock price has gone through some pretty incredible swings....
...Somebody picks a basket of stocks like the S&P 500, for example, and then they build a fund to track those stocks. And they don’t make any choices beyond that....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Marc Filippino The American economy is booming. Inflation is down, jobs are up, and the S&P 500 is continuing its joyride....
...Marc Filippino Markets weren’t super happy with the news. Treasuries rallied and the S&P 500 fell 1.6 per cent....
...Marc Goergen, professor at Madrid’s IE Business School, found that shareholders reacted badly to S&P 500 announcements from large, complex companies about combining the top roles....
...We got the S&P 500 up sort of well over 20 per cent for the year. You know, this is a really serious rally....
...Investors were very, very excited by all this news and the S&P 500 jumped by 1.4 per cent. We’ll get even more monetary policy news soon....
...The S&P 500 ended last month nearly 9 per cent higher, and US Treasuries had their best month since, well, since leg warmers were in fashion....
...And equities, well, the S&P 500 ended the day up nearly 2 per cent. [MUSIC PLAYING] Russia’s workforce is shrinking and it is shrinking fast....
...use AI to glean signals behind executives’ soothing words Markets in 2024: Investors bet on déjà vu all over again The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc...
...Or should you use the S&P 500 to understand the state of the US economy? Probably not....
...The S&P 500 ended the day up around 1 per cent. [MUSIC PLAYING] Some people are now allowed to cross the border from Gaza into Egypt....
...The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite both fell about 1.5 per cent. Investors are worried about higher for longer interest rates. But sterling got the strongest punch to the gut....
...The S&P 500 fell about 1 per cent, but it was the two-year US Treasury yield that caught the most attention. It hit a 17-year high yesterday....
...Marc Ronchetti at Halma and Chris O’Shea at Centrica are other more recent examples. “If America is run by lawyers then the UK is run by accountants,” said one headhunter....
...That’s if you look at the S&P 500, Europe’s Stoxx 600 and China’s CSI 300 indices. The MSCI index of global stocks is on course for its worst month since last September....
...The S&P 500 ended the day up 1.5 per cent. And there is more jobs data on the way. Employment figures for July come out on Friday....
...Marc FilippinoNow, how come we didn’t see the same sort of movement from equities, Jen? I mean, the S&P was up a little bit yesterday....
...The S&P slashed its US rating to a double A plus back in 2011....
...American equities recorded their longest winning streak in two years after the S&P 500 closed out July 3 per cent higher....
...The cooler inflation report caused the S&P 500 to jump and Treasury yields to drop. I’m joined now by the FT’s US economics editor Colby Smith to talk more about the ins and outs of the report....
...Mary McDougallHi, Marc. Thanks for having me on. Marc FilippinoGood to have you....
...If you weighted all the stocks in the S&P 500 equally, it would be up about 5 per cent so far this year....
...Letter in response to this column: Time Lords and Terminators / From Marc Hudson, Stone, Staffordshire, UK...
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