Hints and tips:
...Merry Christmas everyone!...
...The merry response, especially in short bonds, makes sense....
...So far this year, the S&P banks index is down about 12 per cent, while the benchmark S&P 500 has risen more than 13 per cent. An index of regional back stocks has lost almost a quarter of its value....
...Markets made merry right away, with the S&P 500 enjoying its best day in more than six months while two-year Treasury yields tumbled almost 0.25 percentage points....
...“It’s hard for me to imagine that the US can go on its merry way . . . at a time when you have recessionary conditions emerging in Europe and the UK [and] deflationary conditions in China....
...Industry figures expect a daunting battle for this particular band of merry men and women, however....
...No, the S&P 500 needs to be traded — likewise the FTSE 100. This can be done, and I’ll explain how in another column....
...In her column on the P&O debacle, retail commentator Mary Portas repeats her call for a Better Business Act (Opinion, FT Weekend, April 9). Few people would disagree with improving business standards....
...Merry National Pickle Day to one and all. Elsewhere on Monday . . ....
...Finally, modern private equity is adept at shunting risk capital on to the tax-deductible debt side of the P&L....
...Letter in response to this article: Directors ought to know the UK Companies Act / From Professor Vanessa Knapp, London SW20, UK...
...On our estimates, Diageo trades on a CY23 P/E of 22.9x, an 11% premium to European Staples and a 94% premium to the broader market....
...Olivia Ghosh, junior specialist in Old Masters at Christie’s in London, cites Judith Leyster’s “Merry Company”, which set a record in 2018 when it sold for £1.8mn, surpassing the artist’s previous record...
...The wave of cancellations were set to “create merry hell in the English channel”, Gary Lyons, owner of haulier Lyons European said....
...Meanwhile, high-income households — with yearly incomes above $125,000 — have continued to make merry.It seems that liquor companies have been right to keep extolling the defensive qualities of premium branding...
...The S&P 500 fell 1 per cent. Five-year Treasury yields hopped. Before the press conference, Aberdeen Standard economist James McCann summed up the mood: This is not what the market expected....
...They illustrate their argument by comparing the paths to success of the richest people in Mexico and the USA (p. 39)....
...Merry Christmas & Happy New Years. Lou, Bev, and the children P.S. We are bringing our two St Bernards along, as we cannot bear to leave them at a kennel.” Wow....
...Of the many phenomena US president Donald Trump has taken credit for — factory openings that predate his political career; the Ethiopian prime minister’s Nobel Peace Prize; people saying “merry Christmas...
...Yet markets’ cheery holiday mood — with global stocks hitting record highs on the news of the accord and the S&P 500 set for its best year since 2013 — could easily turn sour....
...Merry Christmas indeed....
...Constituents of this merry band of growth stocks included fizzy tooth-destroyer Coca Cola, computing giant IBM and dream weaver Disney....
...Having a big distributor go bust on the eve of the prime selling season is not a terribly merry harbinger. Shares slumped, sales dropped and Mattel suspended its dividend....
...On Thursday, the S&P 500 closed 0.2 per cent weaker, while European stocks were roughly flat....
...At this year’s annual advertising festival in Cannes, even the children’s merry-go-round is feeling the competition from the leading tech companies....
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