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...Best known as one half of powerhouse duo Run the Jewels with New York’s El-P, Mike is 48. His stage name comes from his killer use of the microphone....
...The S&P 500 rose by 0.2 per cent after federal data showed that prices increased more slowly than expected in November, putting Wall Street’s benchmark share gauge within 1 per cent of the all-time closing...
...Rating agency S&P subsequently put the group’s long-term rating on credit watch negative....
...The appointments come after Daniel Lerup and Richard Hunter stepped down as CFO and COO, respectively, last year....
...Stocks fell after Powell’s comments, with the S&P 500 ending the day down 1.6 per cent, its worst day in four months, and the Nasdaq Composite down 2.2 per cent, its worst day in three months....
...For bargain hunters, the distress is a bonus. Blackstone, for instance, ploughed an unusually large 55 per cent of its property investments in to Europe and the UK last year....
...This all comes in the opening moments of “Lean Beef Patty”, a brief blast of a track with a tinny, sped-up sample of a P Diddy song called “I Need a Girl”, hyperactive rhythms and aggressively hollered rapping...
...A day later, down the coast in Wilmington, Delaware, US president Joe Biden’s son Hunter appears in a federal court on gun charges....
...Harnett points out that nimble bargain hunters could have done better than the headlines suggest....
...Also, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter is to appear for a deposition with House Republicans for their impeachment inquiry into his father....
...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...
...However, a cut by Fitch should only have a small impact of a few basis points, according to JPMorgan’s analysts Jay Barry and Jason Hunter....
...As someone who felt the loss when she pulled her songs from Spotify, it’s time to enjoy her latest album, reviewed here by the FT’s Ludovic Hunter-Tilney....
...Instead, house-hunters are turning to new builds. Lennar ended its fiscal second quarter with 17,885 new orders, a 1 per cent rise on the year-ago period....
...A recent report by S&P Global Commodity Insights found the US would struggle to meet demand for critical minerals such as nickel by relying only on domestic sources and free-trade partners....
...At least a dozen petrochemical facilities are expected to come online in that time period, a third of which will be located in China, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...The S&P is roughly flat for the month, having rallied in March even as three midsized banks failed....
...In 1996 the Harvard political scientist Samuel P Huntington made a prescient case for conflict between civilisations as the defining feature of a new era, arguing that the most important distinctions between...
...But this creates opportunities for bargain hunters who take the long view....
...The S&P 500 did not fall by more than 10 per cent, but climbed over 20 per cent (though driven mostly by just seven tech stocks)....
...Monday France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, US: S&P Global/Cips/HCOB manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Germany: monthly retail sales figures Results: Cranswick Q1 trading...
...The benchmark S&P 500 recovered from an earlier decline to close up 0.4 per cent with tech and utilities tempering falls for energy, basic materials and consumer cyclical industries....
...Equities slipped in the session, with the blue-chip S&P 500 losing 0.2 per cent, as investors appeared to eschew growth stocks for more defensive sectors, which tend to be more resilient in a downturn....
...“Buying CCCs now is playing with fire,” said Hunter Hayes, portfolio manager of the Intrepid Income Fund. This is emphatically not happening in the US, however....
...The S&P 500 index of blue-chip stocks closed up 2.3 per cent, bringing gains over a holiday-shortened trading week to 1.4 per cent....
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