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...Net zero: The green transition will be hard on workers and involve trade-offs policymakers would rather not talk about, writes Sarah O’Connor....
...Its price-to-earnings ratio is 25, not far from the broad S&P 500 ratio of 20....
...The country is bad at enforcing its own labour laws, as the P&O debacle showed this year when the company sacked hundreds of sailors without any consultation in what lawyers call an “efficient breach” of...
...Minimum wage: Even though it doesn’t boost productivity, the policy has fared well during a period of high inflation in the UK, writes Sarah O’Connor....
...The World of Work Columnist Sarah O’Connor praises the effectiveness of the minimum wage in the UK and elsewhere as a policy instrument....
...They’re less levered,” says Maureen O’Connor, global head of Wells Fargo’s high-grade debt syndicate....
...Bernard Ahkong, co-chief investment officer at UBS Asset Management’s hedge fund unit O’Connor, said: “We don’t want companies to boost dividends in an unsustainable fashion only to then have to cut them...
...Not a great look when the S&P 500 equity index was up about 3.4 per cent over the same period. It marks yet another disappointing episode for the hedge fund industry....
...US futures were tipped to open flat, with the blue-chip S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq poised to make minimal gains....
...“I will be calling on P&O to change the name of the ships,” he assured MPs....
...Even in a down market, with jobs strong, money flows in regardless of the direction of the market,” O’Connor said....
...The benchmark S&P 500 index closed 2.5 per cent higher on Friday, taking its weekly gain to 4 per cent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rallied 2.9 per cent, for a weekly advance of 2.2 per cent....
...Jeff O’Connor, head of market structure for the Americas at Liquidnet, said traders were facing “once in a generation headwinds” and having to contend with erratic market conditions....
...The Conference Board will release the January reading of its consumer confidence index and the latest S&P/Case-Schiller home price index is also published....
...It is possible to hate your job but love your work “More and more, I meet people who say they love their work but hate their jobs,” writes Sarah O’Connor....
...In equity markets, Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 closed 0.4 per cent lower, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gave up 1.1 per cent....
...The FT editorial board wrote that the actions of P&O Ferries showed contempt for British taxpayers who provided it with furlough support in 2020, while employment columnist Sarah O’Connor outlined why the...
...He also received new warnings of a US recession from JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon and the S&P group. Gloom is permeating the property sector across the world....
...Sarah O’Connor: What do you think the root causes are of the remaining pay differences between men and women?...
...“On-demand” services might have made people feel wealthy, but the model is in jeopardy, writes Sarah O’Connor....
...The organisation’s psychology-based transformation programmes have been taken up by 62 per cent of FTSE 100 companies and 59 per cent of the S&P 100. Leading by example, one could say....
...Sarah O’Connor explores. Do human resources departments exist to protect employees or the company? Listen to the new Working It podcast....
...Friday’s losses for the S&P and Nasdaq were 2.9 per cent and 3.5 per cent, respectively....
...The S&P 500 equity gauge ended the day up 2.8 per cent, the biggest daily increase since late June....
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