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...But, as S&P puts it when explaining why U.S....
...With just 1.2bn people having an income above $12K a year, Apple is valued on an EV per pop of c$2,300, which requires c$800pp of annual spend, on the global equity strategy team’s calculations. 4....
...At the top of the pile is the S&P 500, which is an absolute beast....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 4 2024. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...In the case of the McKinsey report published in 2020, the main study gathered data about diversity on the boards and in the C-suites of more than 1,000 large global companies....
...Yet shares of insurers such as Allstate, Progressive and AIG are down between 3 per cent and 22 per cent this year, while the S&P 500 has climbed 16 per cent....
...S&P rates EDF as BBB compared with AA for French government bonds....
...T, a construction and engineering business, during the merger to help cement the billionaire scion’s control of the conglomerate....
...Some would probably argue that more information is not the same as better information . . . but c’mon....
...They help them optimise their portfolio construction to let them spend more time with clients, which ultimately is the end goal,” Guillette said....
...(c) 1 LOB (“Services”) = almost all of Citi’s market cap....
...NAHB chair Alicia Huey said that some of the slowdown was the result of “a dearth of construction workers”....
...Though I have long been in charge of the construction crew, Charlie should forever be credited with being the architect.”...
...There was no liquidity in S&P 100 options....
...US flexible offices group WeWork was recently downgraded to CC, one notch above a C rating. A C signals a default may be imminent....
...Virtu’s shares have fallen almost 10 per cent this year even as benchmarks such as the S&P 500 have rallied....
...“They’re taking bets on different things,” said Raoul LeBlanc, an analyst at S&P Global....
...And we should mention that Nikkei Inc, which calculates and publishes the index, owns the Financial Times. Japan’s market bubble burst in the 1980s and has had a slow time recovering....
...Blame a decade of under-construction and high rates locking people into low-rate mortgages....
...Grabinski calculates that on a trailing 12-month basis, S&P cost growth has outstripped revenue growth for the fourth month in a row....
...Expectations are that S&P 500 second-quarter earnings fell 7 per cent from a year ago. If we were betting men we’d take the over, given the effervescent economic backdrop....
...Construction spending is forecast to have risen 0.2 per cent in April from a 0.3 per cent increase in March....
...The chances of (c) are impossible to estimate, even granting that Putin looks weaker now....
...Inc and Acc, to use the three-letter acronyms often flash up on fund websites. Now, Lynn, could you have a go at explaining the difference between Inc and Acc please? Lynn Hutchinson Yes, of course....
...The S&P Homebuilders Select Industry index is down 25 per cent so far this year, outpacing losses on the S&P 500 index....
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