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...Virtu’s shares have fallen almost 10 per cent this year even as benchmarks such as the S&P 500 have rallied....
...Big global equity trusts F&C (FCIT), Brunner (BUT) and Alliance Trust (ATST) have all outperformed the MSCI World index in the past year, thanks to their portfolios having less exposure to underperforming...
...That’s a lower proportion than the S&P 500, which has 13 stocks above the 10 per cent short threshold. And from 461 companies in the Stoxx 600 ex UK, 28 are heavily shorted....
...Roughly 80 per cent of the more than 430 S&P 500 constituents that have reported first-quarter results beat estimates....
...It is impossible to be precise but we think that in general when companies refer to “materially ahead” they are referring to c.10%....
...says Johnny C Taylor, president of the Society for Human Resource Management....
...And you don’t hear much complaining when the industry does beat the S&P, as was the case in 2018....
...He’ll become executive chairman after the placing, replacing Penny Hughes, and he’ll rebrand as Aston Martin the consistently back-of-the-grid Racing Point F1 team....
...There is also still a management issue as chief executive Jill McDonald moves to Marks and Spencer....
...The roster includes Hasbro, McDonald’s, Baker Hughes, Chipotle, Lockheed Martin, Amazon, Microsoft and Twitter....
...Some encouraging corporate earnings from the likes of McDonald’s and Caterpillar, and optimism about tax cuts, helped support the bullish mood....
...The roster includes Honeywell, Amazon, Eli Lilly, Harley-Davidson, Baker Hughes, Boeing, Apple, McDonald’s and Halliburton....
...The roster includes Honeywell, Amazon, Eli Lilly, Harley Davidson, Baker Hughes, Boeing, Apple, McDonald’s and Halliburton....
...Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27 Rodriguez, originally from Puerto Rico, was a car fanatic, according to local media....
...- Asian “deathcare services” firm sees nirvana | By Jennifer Hughes in Hong Kong Some might call it investing Nirvana....
...Alfred P Sloan He trained as an electrical engineer and started in business devising roller bearings, writes Robert Wright....
...Shares of Baker Hughes slipped 4 per cent to $51.13 after its price target was cut to $65 from $87....
...The S&P 500 fell 0.3 per cent to 2,086.14. Intraday WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell faces the prospect of another protest over his pay from shareholders attending its annual meeting at noon....
...Instead of a range of triple A to C as in credit ratings generally, the evaluations will go from one (for the best) to eight at the junky end of the scale....
...It’s one of the few actively managed funds to beat the US market, returning 234 per cent over 10 years against the S&P 500’s 150 per cent, according to data from Lipper....
...Dimon’s status as chief executive or chairman of J.P. Morgan’s parent company....
...P&G’s embrace of C-suite recycling would undoubtedly seem out of character to anyone old enough to remember the days when the world’s biggest consumer products group by sales was renowned for the depth of...
...The S&P 500 traded within a limited range before finishing roughly flat for the day at 1,418.55....
...From Mr Marc McDonald. Sir, In response to your recent editorial on the Trayvon Martin murder hearing, Daniel P....
...While that pales next to Apple’s 360 per cent, it is great versus the flat performance of the Kospi or the S&P 500. Mr Lee is now 70, however....
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