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...Letter in response to this article: Deep-sea mining start-ups should be careful what they wish for / From Aistė Klimašauskaitė and Eoghan P Reeves, University of Bergen, Norway...
...Leading proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services has an ESG ratings branch, as does credit ratings group S&P Global....
...Global demand for plastics, which makes up 50 per cent of petrochemical demand, is expected to nearly double by mid-century, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...Felipe Perez, Americas director at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said that, while there might be “some politics” at play, price was the crucial factor driving the diesel imports....
...Roman Kramarchuk, head of future energy analytics at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said policy changes linked to COP28 were “inherently a long-term story”....
...The recent passage of a constitutional amendment to simplify the country’s complex tax system was broadly welcomed as a step in the right direction, with S&P upgrading Brazil’s sovereign rating one notch...
...Bryan Armour, director of passive strategies research, North America at Morningstar, said “politically, there is a pretty clear line of demarcation on what types of companies fit within each party”....
...ESG ratings look and sound like the familiar credit ratings produced by S&P, Fitch or Moody’s....
...The inflows marked a reversal from the first quarter as investors pulled money out of passive funds while the benchmark S&P 500 repeatedly hit record highs....
...Eighty-six per cent of S&P 500 companies already report through CDP, and 94 per cent of the UK’s FTSE 100....
...As HL Mencken, Upton Sinclair or William Jennings Bryan was said to have roughly quipped, it is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on their obliviousness....
...“Both have become political footballs,” said Bryan Armour, director of passive strategies research, North America at Morningstar....
...Joanna S Kao That was the FT’s Kenza Bryan. Thanks, Kenza. Kenza Bryan Thanks....
...Australia’s Port of Newcastle, the world’s largest coal export terminal, whose credit rating was downgraded to junk status by S&P last week, has much of its outstanding debt tied up in sustainability-linked...
...Bryan Armour, director of passive strategies research, North America at Morningstar expressed similar concerns....
...ing] uncapped exposure to the S&P 500, while buffering against the possibility of significant losses”....
...The S&P 500 has hit multiple record highs over the past month, while the tech-dominated Nasdaq Composite was within touching distance of its own record this week....
...The other big problem is that the cost of hydrogen fuel has almost doubled from about $16 per kilogramme in July 2022, according to S&P data....
...My FT colleagues Kenza Bryan and Attracta Mooney in London have the story on the deal, which is expected to be formally announced today....
...By this measure, model portfolio assets rose 48 per cent from $286bn to $424bn in the two years to June 2023, a period during which the S&P 500 was broadly flat....
...Two weeks after losing its most prominent brand ambassador, the weight-loss group lost another fifth of its value on reports its lenders were preparing for debt talks after S&P cut its credit rating to a...
...“I suspect the money following the S&P 500, if that is what they go into, is much larger,” he added. “The S&P 500 is just a bigger pot. The FTSE is a dot compared to the S&P market cap.”...
...Ticker symbols have taken on an outsized importance in the exchange traded fund world, where pursuit of the kind of name recognition enjoyed by funds such as SPY, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, has become the holy...
...“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...
...It was removed from the S&P 500 ESG index last year after it faced racial discrimination allegations and fears around the safety of self-driving cars....
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