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...Philippines: Fidel Ramos, the country’s former leader, will receive full military honours at his state funeral at the Cemetery of Heroes in Manila....
...Look at a chart of the S&P 500 equity index in January 2020, and the storming of the seat of the US Congress is barely detectable....
...Australian equities are set to open higher, with S&P/ASX 200 futures up 0.8 per cent....
...Plus, S&P to review the UK’s credit rating AA (negative outlook); Moody’s to review the UK’s credit rating....
...The S&P 500 index rose 9.1 per cent in July, its biggest monthly gain since November 2020....
...Rating agency Moody’s has followed S&P in downgrading Rolls-Royce’s debt to junk....
...Mr Ramos indicated the company had not been affected by the civil unrest in Chile....
...In the US, the Nasdaq Bank Index has fallen more than a third, while the S&P 500 is flat for the year. That has wiped out a combined $987bn in shareholder value, Citi data shows....
...By comparison, the S&P 500 has declined 0.2 per cent over the same period. So far in 2019, however, GM shares are up 3.9 per cent....
...And according to S&P Global, the forecast for the country's soyabean production is the second-highest in 19 years, up 48 per cent year-on-year following 2018's dismal harvest. Finally, Brazil....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] A look into the relative performance of the stock market's different sectors sheds light on what is energising the rally on the S&P 500....
...He points to the 6.7 per cent annual return of the US S&P 500 index over the 15 years to December, compared to the 5.9 per cent return for the MSCI All Country World Index ex-US over the same period....
...&P MidCap 400 and the S&P SmallCap 600 indices, respectively, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices....
...Mexico has a lot to prove: rating agency S&P Global put it on notice earlier this year that disappointing growth and rising debt levels were putting its sovereign credit rating at risk....
...They include a backlash against the agenda of Indonesian president Joko Widodo’s political party – PDI-P – intervention by the government in the rice market in Thailand, uncertainty within political elites...
...As Mr Ramos adds: “The problem with this conversation is that it can become outdated at any moment.”...
...Rosalie Ramos, Almodovar’s mother, told the Orlando Sentinel newspaper that he was a “happy man with a big heart” who would have celebrated his 24th birthday later this month....
...S&P cut its sovereign debt rating to one notch above junk in March 2014....
...Police commissioner William Bratton also visited the memorial where officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed....
...“The downgrade is well anchored in the clear deterioration of the macro fundamentals and visible erosion of policy credibility in recent years,” said Alberto Ramos, a Goldman Sachs economist....
...The lowering of S&P’s Brazil outlook should serve as an alarm bell about the importance of fiscal discipline, analysts say....
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