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...(The quality measurement uses ratings from firms like Fitch, Moody’s and S&P, which surely could never go wrong.)...
...Berkshire and the S&P 500 If your entire equity portfolio had to be in either the S&P 500 or Berkshire Hathaway, which would be the better choice?...
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...Since closing the IHS deal, S&P’s share price is up about 13 per cent, slightly lagging its benchmark S&P 500 index....
...In contrast, the S&P 500’s price-to-book ratio is close to the record 5 times it touched in 2021 and 2000 (the Nasdaq’s P/B ratio is close to 7.5 times)....
...S&P Global’s flash eurozone composite purchasing managers’ index, which measures business activity across the bloc, rose to an eight-month high of 48.9 this month, up from 47.9 in January....
...Since 2000 oil prices have rarely continued rising when the S&P 500 has a sustained decline. That surely would happen if oil prices soared in an all-out war between Iran and Israel....
...“Significant budgetary consolidation has placed Greece’s fiscal trajectory on to a firmly improving track,” said S&P’s analysts, who attributed a “stable” outlook to the country....
...S&P’s move comes after Fitch raised the company to investment grade status in September. Moody’s lifted the company to the highest notch of junk territory in July....
...For a stock that is expected to increase earnings below the S&P 500’s average pace this year and next, that’s still a lot....
...In the S&P 500, 64 per cent of stocks have crossed above their 200-day moving average, which is above the historical mean: Every S&P sector has positive returns over the period....
...We’ve divided the issuers up by their primary exchange and overlaid short-interest data from S&P Global, accurate to February 23....
...At the top of the pile is the S&P 500, which is an absolute beast....
...S&P 500 hit an all-time high on Friday but, as my colleagues Nicholas Megaw and Kate Duguid have pointed out, stocks limped to the summit....
...S&P could not immediately be reached for comment....
...P 500 options today are in 0DTE contracts....
...This matched a wider trend in which S&P 500 spending on buybacks fell 14 per cent on the previous year....
...The comparable proportion for the S&P 500, converted into dollars, is just shy of 50 per cent. Another is the absence of — take your pick — turbocharged growth prospects or Reddit sub-thread status....
...The S&P 500 is up 4 per cent year to date....
...Likewise, S&P Global Mobility surveys suggest stable EV loyalty, measured as the share of EV owners whose next car was an EV, especially for Teslas....
...Shares in the company, which declined 5.6 per cent on Monday, have fallen more than a third this year, making it the second-worst performer in the S&P 500 and underperforming those of legacy carmakers....
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...For example: “In my view, [public markets aren’t] differentiating enough between office Reits that hold B-tier assets and office Reits that hold A-tier assets.”...
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