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...Asset management giants BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street collectively control the shares of between 15 and 20 per cent of many S&P 500 companies, giving them significant sway over the outcome of proxy...
...Larry Fink’s empire accounted for almost 10 per cent of MSCI’s overall revenues in 2023, according to the company’s latest 10-Q....
...This matched a wider trend in which S&P 500 spending on buybacks fell 14 per cent on the previous year....
...His campaign launched its first TikTok video last month on the day of the Super Bowl, including a Q&A with the president. The first post got more than 10mn views, although none has surpassed that....
...It launched Amazon Q, an AI-powered assistant for users of its cloud services, in November....
...The filing adds that OpenAI is also building another model, Q*, that will be even more powerful and capable than GPT4....
...Look at the relative performance of a company, control for everything you can think of and measure — company size, industry, market shifts, geography and so on....
...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....
...Only five per cent of S&P 500 companies have price-to-book ratios below that critical level, according to JPX....
...S&P Global considers CVR an important part of its calculation of the conglomerate’s indebtedness....
...Traditional WeightWatchers members, such as Rod Zimmerman, combined in-person meetings with a points-based system to control their weight....
...That writedown stemmed from a 2019 change in New York rent control regulations paired with a big increase in interest rates....
...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...
...And volatility control funds have gone from buying to selling, now that volatility has ticked up....
...“They’ve been burning cash throughout the last year or so,” said Oliver Vande Stouwe, an analyst at S&P....
...Harsh capital controls would nullify the whole project. Finding the middle ground is tricky....
...Prospective wildfire payouts prompted S&P Global and Moody’s to downgrade PacifiCorp’s debt ratings last year....
...“When iShares competes directly with Vanguard on cost, like S&P 500 or total stock market ETFs, investors still reach for Vanguard’s ETF because those cheap, broad-market index funds are what [Vanguard is...
...The P/B ratio measures the market value relative to its book value....
...Its forward P/E is just 15. We’re still searching for good stock picks. If you’ve got a candidate, email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...S&P rates BPY’s debt BBB-, the lowest investment grade credit rating....
...Japan: monetary policy reform and corporate reform The Bank of Japan’s dismantling of yield curve control has proceeded a bit like a child eating a gingerbread house: the decorative candies are picked off...
...This set-up was typically used by family-controlled companies such as Ford and The New York Times to preserve family control over the businesses by selling stock with significantly less voting power....
...Those that have complied tend to be the weakest companies, with p/b ratios below 0.5; many stronger companies apparently feel like they can get away with it....
...“We’re in a rough patch right now with the global economic situation,” says Kevin Murphy, principal metals and mining analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insights....
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