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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....
...The S&P 500 index of blue-chip companies is up more than 9 per cent since the start of the year....
...The S&P purchasing manager’s index, a measure of activity in the private sector, rose to 53.3 in February, up from 52.9 in January and the highest since May 2023....
...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...
...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....
...Credit rating agency S&P Global downgraded Ethiopia’s debt to default on December 15 after the initial deadline for payment was missed....
...He added that the issue would become a serious concern to markets “in the next six to 12 months as something that matter[s] a lot”....
...Wall Street stocks continued their ascent on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 adding 0.5 per cent — edging closer to a record high....
...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...
...Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, which publishes the PMI survey with the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, said a renewed economic contraction “already...
...In the aftermath of 2022’s gilt market turmoil Stheeman said it was “very notable” how quickly international investor confidence had been restored....
...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....
...Some of the world’s poorest countries also face an additional burden as they repay accumulated debt owed for participating in the G20’s debt service suspension initiative in 2020 and 2021, the exact costs...
...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....
...The conflict could “restrain how far inflation falls next year”, Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics, said....
...On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 fell 1 per cent, and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dipped 1.1 per cent....
...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....
...S&P Global Ratings this week forecast a 5 per cent contraction for Israel’s economy in the last three months of this year....
...MSCI’s emerging market stocks index has added 3 per cent so far this year, well behind a rise of almost 19 per cent for the US S&P 500 index of blue-chip stocks....
...Paul Dales, chief UK economist at the consultancy Capital Economics, said: “We still think the bank will raise interest rates by 0.25 percentage points tomorrow, although the risk that the bank leaves rates...
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