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...The move in yields sent stocks lower: the blue-chip S&P 500 was down 0.8 per cent in mid-morning trade in New York and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite had dropped 1.3 per cent....
...Flows into S&P 500 ETFs were boosted by a technical factor last year when the $533bn SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) pulled in $31bn in two days in December....
...The S&P 500 index of blue-chip companies is up more than 9 per cent since the start of the year....
...So far the rethink on rates has done little to cool stock markets, with the S&P 500 index of blue-chip stocks up 7.4 per cent this year — helped by the strength of the US economy and excitement about the...
...US stocks fell on Friday as traders trimmed their bets on interest rate cuts, with the benchmark S&P 500 falling 0.6 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite down 1 per cent....
...In the stock market, the S&P 500 was down 0.8 per cent in mid-day trade and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.3 per cent, pulled lower by tech stocks following Tuesday’s weaker than expected growth forecasts...
...Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said at the time that funding tax cuts by instigating a bigger squeeze on public service budgets posed a “material risk that those plans...
...The S&P 500 has hovered just short of its January 2022 record in thin post-Christmas trading before dipping 0.3 per cent on Friday’s last trading day....
...Wall Street stocks continued their ascent on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 adding 0.5 per cent — edging closer to a record high....
...ing] uncapped exposure to the S&P 500, while buffering against the possibility of significant losses”....
...By this measure, model portfolio assets rose 48 per cent from $286bn to $424bn in the two years to June 2023, a period during which the S&P 500 was broadly flat....
...The yields on 10-year German Bunds fell by 0.08 percentage points to 2.04 per cent, the lowest level since March, after S&P said its survey of purchasing managers signalled the fastest decline in business...
...The $483bn SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) had inflows equivalent to 14.9 per cent of its starting assets, the $397bn iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) 13.2 per cent and the $367bn Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) 16.4...
...Ticker symbols have taken on an outsized importance in the exchange traded fund world, where pursuit of the kind of name recognition enjoyed by funds such as SPY, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, has become the holy...
...Credit rating agency S&P Global downgraded Ethiopia’s debt to default on December 15 after the initial deadline for payment was missed....
...The S&P Merval stock index was up more than 18 per cent in Tuesday morning trading. Shares of state energy firm YPF, which Milei has promised to privatise fully, was up more than 39 per cent....
...US equities were less affected than bonds, with Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 down 0.1 per cent and the tech-dominated Nasdaq Composite up 0.2 per cent by midday in New York....
...“I suspect the money following the S&P 500, if that is what they go into, is much larger,” he added. “The S&P 500 is just a bigger pot. The FTSE is a dot compared to the S&P market cap.”...
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...S&P Global Ratings this week forecast a 5 per cent contraction for Israel’s economy in the last three months of this year....
...That compares with a spread of about 55 basis points for five-year CDS in Saudi Arabia, which has a lower credit rating from S&P....
...On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 fell 1 per cent, and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dipped 1.1 per cent....
...However, many Tory MPs oppose such a squeeze and Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said it would be a “big choice” that would inflict pain on “some of the poorest” in society....
...Almost all of the S&P 500’s 15 per cent gain so far in2023 has been driven by the “magnificent seven” of Nvidia, Tesla, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple and Amazon....
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