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...Thus only a fraction of overall AUM is deployed in strategies that have a direct impact on the VIX® index (e.g. 1-month over/underwriting strategies on the S&P 500 index)....
...The rest of the eurozone “saw the best performance . . . despite growth slowing slightly”, S&P said....
...Since closing the IHS deal, S&P’s share price is up about 13 per cent, slightly lagging its benchmark S&P 500 index....
...The stock has gained nearly 40 per cent over the past 12 months, outpacing the S&P 500’s 20 per cent rise....
...The S&P 500 rose as much as 0.6 per cent in early trading, but gave up most of the gains and was up just 0.1 per cent by mid-afternoon....
...US stocks ticked higher on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 closing at a record high for the third session in a row....
...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....
...This matched a wider trend in which S&P 500 spending on buybacks fell 14 per cent on the previous year....
...At the top of the pile is the S&P 500, which is an absolute beast....
...And while corporates have been the dominant buyers of equities over the past year, there’s $6tn of dry powder sitting in money market funds that could be dislodged by lower interest rates: The S&P 500’s...
...The benchmark S&P 500 fell 0.1 per cent on Wednesday afternoon, but switched between gains and losses in the session with industrials as the worst-performing sector....
...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....
...The S&P is up 4.4 per cent since January while Germany’s Dax and France’s Cac 40 are both up about 6.6 per cent....
...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....
...The benchmark S&P 500 made minor gains, with utilities the best-performing sector. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 0.1 per cent....
...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....
...But, as S&P puts it when explaining why U.S....
...A classic example of a yield-enhancing structured product is a so-called “covered call”: a purchase of the S&P 500 index and a simultaneous sale of a one-month call option on the index....
...The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on Friday after a blistering rally in tech stocks....
...“The meteoric rise of yield-enhancing structured products linked to the S&P 500 over the last two years has gone hand in hand with the drop of [the] Vix over the same period,” the report added....
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