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...Over the past year the FTSE 100 has gained 1.23 per cent, while the S&P 500 has risen by 31.3 per cent....
...The FTSE 100 index is down 4.5 per cent over the past year, compared with 22.96 per cent growth in the US S&P 500....
...These have performed poorly, relative to other indices like the S&P 500, since interest rate rises began in December 2021....
...Since the start of last year, he has underperformed a low-cost S&P 500 tracker. Several other of the most-followed copy traders have also started to lag behind after doing well before the pandemic....
...The Pope in France: Pope Francis is set to arrive on a two-day visit to Marseille on Friday....
...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....
...The poet and garden maker Alexander Pope didn’t share the Phillyrea enthusiasm....
...In futures markets, the blue-chip S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was set to trade flat....
...Financial markets closed Senegal: presidential election Vatican City: Pope Francis attends a Palm Sunday service in St Peter’s Square...
...The S&P 500 closed up 0.1 per cent, with a 1.8 per cent decline for Goldman Sachs helping to keep gains in check. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite ended the day flat....
...Wall Street’s S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were each down 0.8 per cent as markets weighed the potential impact of a cooling labour market on economic growth and inflation....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 ended the day flat, with every sector in positive territory except tech and communications, down 1 per cent and 0.4 per cent, respectively....
...Futures contracts tracking the US benchmark S&P 500 index were flat while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was trading 0.1 per cent lower....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 rose 1.3 per cent in New York, closing at its highest level since February 15. The tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 1.9 per cent....
...Over a three-year period to April 19 2023, the conventional index-tracking SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) has delivered returns of 14.8 per cent. QRFT is close behind, with returns of 14.5 per cent....
...Still, the blue-chip S&P 500 declined 0.2 per cent on Friday, but added 0.8 per in the week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite lost 0.4 per cent on Friday, but gained 0.3 per cent across five sessions....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 index closed down 0.3 per cent on Friday, leading to a 0.3 per cent loss for the week....
...The S&P 500 fell 0.6 per cent, ending a four-day rally, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.5 per cent, as markets weighed the potential effect of a cooling labour market on economic growth and...
...Still, broader equity markets were uneven, as the gains among banks were partially offset by a decline in tech stocks that left the blue-chip S&P 500 index up 0.2 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite down 0.5...
...Equities slipped in the session, with the blue-chip S&P 500 losing 0.2 per cent, as investors appeared to eschew growth stocks for more defensive sectors, which tend to be more resilient in a downturn....
...The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are down 1.6 per cent and 1.7 per cent, respectively, so far this week....
...Broader equity markets in the US were mixed, with the blue-chip S&P 500 up 0.4 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite down 0.3 per cent....
...The S&P 500’s financial sub-index dropped by 3.9 per cent on worries about the value of banks’ holdings of Treasuries and other debt instruments....
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