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...When doing “draw and inspect”, new drawdowners will see the S&P 500 index reached an all-time high on March 28....
...Anyway, back to the S&P report. They reckon that debt maturities of firms rated single-B or lower will be around $310bn in 2025, rising to $400bn in 2026....
...Since closing the IHS deal, S&P’s share price is up about 13 per cent, slightly lagging its benchmark S&P 500 index....
...This is roughly comparable to average default rates observed in companies that receive a B credit rating from S&P (3.4 per cent) and a B3 from Moody’s (4 per cent)....
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...The rest of the eurozone “saw the best performance . . . despite growth slowing slightly”, S&P said....
...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....
...The pay package of S&P Global’s head was $18.6mn last year, while the chief executive of MSCI took home $13mn in 2022, according to proxy statements....
...The stock has gained nearly 40 per cent over the past 12 months, outpacing the S&P 500’s 20 per cent rise....
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...S&P’s move comes after Fitch raised the company to investment grade status in September. Moody’s lifted the company to the highest notch of junk territory in July....
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...And — as a chart borrowed from Duncan Lamont at Schroders shows — the extent of concentration in the S&P 500 is not something investors are used to....
...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....
...(Alphaville believes that using L’Oréal as an O is cheating, even if it makes your acronym look nicer.)...
...In contrast, the S&P 500’s price-to-book ratio is close to the record 5 times it touched in 2021 and 2000 (the Nasdaq’s P/B ratio is close to 7.5 times)....
...We’ve divided the issuers up by their primary exchange and overlaid short-interest data from S&P Global, accurate to February 23....
...At the top of the pile is the S&P 500, which is an absolute beast....
...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....
...S&P could not immediately be reached for comment....
...Since 2000 oil prices have rarely continued rising when the S&P 500 has a sustained decline. That surely would happen if oil prices soared in an all-out war between Iran and Israel....
...Chiefs of companies on the US S&P 500 index were paid three times more in 2022, earning on average $16.7mn (£13.6mn at the time), according to labour union federation AFL-CIO....
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