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...You do the S&P 500 questions. Alexandra Scaggs The S&P is a multinational index. Robin Wigglesworth Yes. Alexandra ScaggsI take no responsibility for whether this is right or not. OK, so 497....
...Singer’s Elliott Management had pushed for Dorsey’s removal on the grounds that nobody should be leading two public companies....
...And you don’t hear much complaining when the industry does beat the S&P, as was the case in 2018....
...Company commentary supports our view of limited direct impact to P&C : Hannover Re: noted a potential €200m loss across P&C and L&H; Munich Re: noted a €500m loss should all the events it covers for communicable...
...All 3 UK names are the cheapest in our European coverage by some margin, at 10-12X P/E and 8-10% FCF yield....
...Miller was a sort of one-man refutation of C P Snow’s 1959 claim in The Two Cultures that there was a “gulf of mutual incomprehension” between the arts and science....
...average surface temperature is -178°C)....
...Revenues rose a quarter last year at advertising agency M&C Saatchi, as it capitalised on the shift towards digital advertising....
...“I will be having a general news conference on JANUARY ELEVENTH in N.Y.C. Thank you.”...
...Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27 Rodriguez, originally from Puerto Rico, was a car fanatic, according to local media....
...(The Atlantic) Invention starts with imagination Arthur C Clarke is cited as a techno-visionary for his idea of using space satellites for global communications but making fiction a reality doesn’t have...
...Nadine Shah Love Your Dum and Mad (P&C Apollo Records)...
...Carl Celian Icahn was brought up in a hardscrabble neighbourhood of Queens, New York, the son of a singer and a teacher....
...Downstairs, in the shop’s poetry corner, I come across a copy of C P Cavafy’s Collected Poems, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn, whose commentary on “The God Abandons Antony” explains that the title is taken...
...(Bloomberg) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: UP Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +149.10 (+1.65%) at 9,173 Topix up +12.31 (+1.64%) at 763.65 Hang Seng up +132.66 (+0.63%) at 21,292 US markets S&P 500 up +6.55 (+0.48%)...
...Logica lost 5.1 per cent to 77½p, with Singer Capital Markets downgrading the IT services group to “sell”....
...Icap rose 0.5 per cent to 430¾p as Singer Capital Markets argued recent weakness was an opportunity to buy....
...Analysts at Numis and Singer both noted M&C Saatchi’s strong balance sheet, with net cash of £2.5m and a dividend yield of more than 10 per cent....
...Diageo’s Ciroc vodka, which is backed by rap singer P. Diddy, is one of the few expensive spirits to continue to sell well....
...Symphony Orchestra playing Mendelssohn’s Elias in the St Thomas Church (June 11); a reconstruction with period instruments of an 1843 Bach tribute concert (June 12); and a recital of cantatas by Bach’s son C.P.E...
...The shares, which have already lost 89 per cent of their value in the past year, fell 2½p to 11¼p....
...The shares, down more than 88 per cent over the last year, fell 3p to 10¾p....
...Analysts at Singer Capital highlighted that Ashtead’s US rivals, United Rentals and RSC, have been cutting capacity....
...good: “Too many chiefs and not enough Indians/ I was only ever one of your minions”, but the chorus deteriorates into spelling out r-e-d-u-n-d-a-n-t, which doesn’t slip off the tongue quite like R-e-s-p-e-c-t...
...Elsewhere, in the sector, Mitchells & Butlers added 4.7 per cent to 340¾p after Kaupthing Singer & Friedland took on a block of 12m shares, about 3 per cent of the company, and sold them to a client....
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