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...However, a recent research note by debt rating agency S&P Global said it has annual revenue of more than $2.5bn and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of about $500mn....
...The S&P Global/Cips UK construction purchasing managers’ index, a measure of the health of the industry, rose to 49.7 in February from 48.8 in January....
...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....
...It spent more than $43bn on share repurchases between 2013 and 2019, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. It was able to pay for that by cost savings on its aircraft programme....
...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 Global and Hamburg Commercial Bank’s Germany construction purchasing managers’ index for December showed a sector deep in contraction at the end of 2023 with a “bleak outlook” for 2024....
...China was responsible for 60 per cent of petrochemical capacity increases in 2023, according to new figures from S&P Global....
...At the S&P 500 return, the pot still comes in at a heady $163mn. This century, Berkshire has struggled to exceed the returns of the S&P 500....
...The S&P 500 hit another all-time high yesterday. More importantly, Trump Media & Technology Group rose another 14 per cent, right after we wrote that it looked a bit overvalued....
...The S&P Global/Cips UK construction purchasing managers’ index fell marginally to 45.5 in November from 45.6 the previous month....
...S&P rates BPY’s debt BBB-, the lowest investment grade credit rating....
...Services companies reported the fastest increase in their selling prices since July despite a cooling of input cost inflation, S&P said....
...Below is the trailing P/E ratio on the S&P 500: There are other signs of dizziness out there. Some individual stocks have gone bananas....
...Tim Moore, of S&P Global, said the survey’s results showed the impact of “elevated borrowing costs and a wait-and-see approach to new projects”....
...The benchmark S&P 500 was down 0.6 per cent in mid-afternoon trading, on track to break an eight-day win streak for the index....
...BHP, Rio Tinto, Glencore, Anglo American and Vale have an average price to forward earnings ratio of 8.5 times versus 18.5 for the S&P 500, according to S&P Capital IQ and Refinitiv....
...Stocks look a little nervous The S&P 500 peaked on July 31, and has fallen about 7 per cent since....
...There was no liquidity in S&P 100 options....
...But the dispersion of their returns has been very wide, as this chart shows: Amazon has barely outperformed the S&P 500, Nvidia has gone absolutely bananas, and the rest have covered the range in-between...
...The average net interest margins for all Chinese commercial banks is set to fall to 1.76 per cent in 2023, down 0.17 percentage points from 2022, according to S&P Global China Ratings, and is expected to...
...New York Community Bancorp, with $115bn or so in assets, is having serious problems, and the broad market (here represented by the S&P 1500) indifferent: Admittedly the regional bank index is underperforming...
...The S&P Global/Cips UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ housebuilding sub-index, a measure of activity in the sector, fell to 40.7 in August, down from 43 in July and the second-lowest level since May 2020...
...That handily outperforms GE Healthcare, the S&P 500 and rival engine maker RTX. Only Rolls-Royce of the UK has fared better. Its shares are up 178 per cent. Even so, investors accord more value on GE....
...The S&P Global/Cips UK construction purchasing managers’ index dropped to 45, down sharply from 50.8 in August and well below the 49.9 forecast by economists polled by Reuters....
...In practice, it means using fewer pesticides and synthetic fertilisers and planting cover crops — non-commercial species that protect and improve soil....
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