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...Contracts tracking the US benchmark S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite were down 0.5 per cent and 0.7 per cent, respectively ahead of the New York market open....
...Construction PMIs: The UK’s S&P Global/Cips August construction purchasing managers’ index data will be published. Analysts polled by Reuters forecast a reading of 50.5, down from 51.7 in July....
...Flash PMIs: S&P Global/Cips will unveil flash services and manufacturing purchasing managers’ index data for the EU, France, Germany, Italy and the UK....
...Monday’s share price rise follows a tumultuous week after S&P Global downgraded the company to junk status last week amid concerns about its exposure to rising interest rates....
...SBB: The Swedish real estate company’s shares jumped as much as 11 per cent in early trading on Europe’s Stoxx 600, clawing back declines on Monday when S&P cut its credit rating to junk....
...S&P, the rating agency, has negative outlooks for two-thirds of the UK water companies it rates — indicating the possibility of downgrades as the result of weaker financial resilience....
...Moody’s has downgraded its outlook for Swiss bank UBS to negative, following a similar move yesterday by fellow rating agency S&P....
...The hearing, led by Democratic congresswoman and chair of the committee, Maxine Waters, comes amid growing calls to regulate the digital assets....
...That’s not quite what investors heard on a P&G earnings call in July 2020....
...Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H Lime, Suffolk, England; Maxine...
...In November 2012 Wynter met with Maxine Waters, the powerful head of Congress’ financial services committee, to lobby for her help....
...Since then the S&P 500 is up almost 300 per cent. The returns of all the big banks now exceed their cost of capital, a sharp difference with European banks....
...The upshot was that the S&P 500 briefly broke 3,000 for the first time, while the dollar retreated and short-dated Treasury yields dropped....
...The IRA never formally admitted responsibility via the usual convention of a statement with the code name P O’Neill....
...Because he believed in me, I was trusted to run P&G Russia and later China. Best career advice to others Follow your dream....
...Maxine Waters, ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, commended the lawsuit, adding, “given the power and influence credit rating agencies have on the market and investor confidence, they...
...Finally, in a step that prompted some sympathy for S&P (and a few guffaws), influential but gaffe-prone congresswoman Maxine Waters called for an official probe of the agency....
...He reckoned the company’s earnings would grow strongly over the next couple of years as increased production from the Nancy-Burdine-Maxine fields come on stream....
...One week ago, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), introduced H.R. 3145, or the Credit Default Swap Prohibition Act of 2009....
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