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...Since 1990, missing the 30 best days of the S&P 500 cuts your compound returns in half....
...“L&G offers a 6.3% 2020E dividend yield, 1.2% above the sector average. Pre-2016 L&G's yield averaged 0.4% above the sector.”...
...Increased focus on the home, reversing some L-T adverse trends....
...With top-line beat flowing through the P&L, core op. profit was +8% vs cons and core EPS +12%. ¾ of the EBIT beat seems inventory related. Q: What were the most noteworthy areas in the results?...
...L’Oréal Sector: cosmetics / HQ: Paris, France Key stat: Online sales jumped 53 per cent in the first quarter....
...Company commentary supports our view of limited direct impact to P&C : Hannover Re: noted a potential €200m loss across P&C and L&H; Munich Re: noted a €500m loss should all the events it covers for communicable...
...John L. Gokongwei Jr. who is 88 and serves as CEO of Robinsons Retail Holdings....
...It’s hard for anyone keep a straight face during Bruno Dumont’s P’tit Quinquin....
...P&G’s line was “Being A Chinese Citizen”. KFC has provided Chinese style breakfasts. L’Oreal created cosmetics friendly to the Chinese skin....
...The App Store is the fastest-growing revenue line in Apple’s P&L: in the last six months, the iTunes unit, of which it is part, produced more than $5bn in sales, up 11 per cent on the year....
...- Scott Sumner écrase l’infâme....
...L&G increased its annual payout to shareholders from 6.4p per share to 7.65p....
...US index futures suggest the S&P 500 in New York will recover some of the ground lost on Wednesday, in line to gain 5 points to 1,614 writes the FT’s Global Markets bell diver Jamie Chisholm....
...CF is more active in the nitrogen and phosphate fertiliser markets, where Indian customers have negotiated prices that take account of the weak rupee....
...Technology stocks were under pressure after Hewlett-Packard cut sales guidance to reflect weak PC sales and services demand....
...Norwegian fertilizer producer Yara , which also posted third quarter losses, rose 2.5 per cent to NKr203.5....
...The retailer highlighted improved PC World sales on the back of Microsoft’s Windows 7....
...In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 index was 0.5 per cent higher in Sydney at 5,730.30....
...The broker said margins in L&G’s annuities business were likely to fall because of recent regulatory changes....
...Northern Rock, up 3.4 per cent to 223½p and Alliance & Leicester, 2.8 per cent higher at 775p, bucked the weak trend. Traders believe A&L could be vulnerable to a bid after share price weakness....
...Just last week we launched services thatput Sky content on PCs and mobile phones, so a Sky subscription isn’t limited to the TV set....
...Philip L Letts Cody Willard: Google Wallet is likely to come out soon, and the implications of such a rollout are big....
...Philip L Letts Tom Glocer: You raise a very interesting point....
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