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...The difference is important because an average corporation might go bust; the S&P 500 never will. Some members of the index will peter out, but others will soar....
...Some would probably argue that more information is not the same as better information . . . but c’mon....
...In the case of the McKinsey report published in 2020, the main study gathered data about diversity on the boards and in the C-suites of more than 1,000 large global companies....
...NewGAMe, which owns 9.6 per cent of GAM, has put forward investment industry veteran Randy Freeman as chief executive, a position currently held by Peter Sanderson, at an extraordinary general meeting in...
...And finally A few decades ago, the residents of Wigtown (population c. 1,000) in south-west Scotland wondered if they could follow Hay-on-Wye in Wales’s lead....
...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...
...Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by Peter Heather and John Rapley (Allen Lane) Western hegemony is in decline....
...Roughly 80 per cent of the more than 430 S&P 500 constituents that have reported first-quarter results beat estimates....
...“The hung [loans] have clogged up the system and held up capital but is likely temporary,” said Peter Gleysteen, chief executive of asset manager AGL Credit Management....
...Separately, data from Statistics Canada are expected to show a trade surplus of C$2.50bn in December. That is down from a surplus of C$3.13bn a month earlier, close to June’s 13-year high of C$3.23bn....
...At each end, Jenkins’ clamshell bonnet and even more extreme C-130-inspired cargo plane rear opens up to swallow luggage in its 627-litre boot....
...PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel invested in AppHarvest in 2020, according to Dealroom, for example....
...In 1959, the physicist and novelist C.P. Snow, gave a lecture in Cambridge called, “The Two Cultures” in which he deplored this “gulf of mutual incomprehension” between literary figures and scientists....
...Data for 2020 show that fewer than 6 per cent of the chief executives of S&P 500 companies are women, while the proportion of female executive or senior-level officials and managers is just over a quarter...
...For green bonds, “demand clearly remains strong,” said Peter Goves, a research analyst with MFS Investment Management....
...Peter Shaw, who owns medical equipment supplier C&P Medical, said he had been relying on a shipment of safety needles now caught in Calais to build up essential government-mandated medical stockpiles ahead...
...to the crosswords The following people are winners of the Monday and Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065: P...
...And P.S., those cities are some of the fastest growing cities, right, places like Charlotte, places like Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham area....
...Because of its merger with Sprint in Apr-20, TMUS's portfolio of spectrum below 6 GHz is now c.3x that of Verizon and c.2x that of AT&T....
...Net P&C premiums written in the core property and casualty business fell 9 per cent from the year before....
...Our last published fair value of 440p (29% upside) is equivalent to a P/TNAV multiple of 0.79x....
...In December, triple C-rated energy bonds posted returns of 12.3 per cent, outperforming the broader triple C index, which returned 5.6 per cent....
...Greg Peters, head of multi-sector and strategy at PGIM Fixed Income in New York “I see the 10-year Treasury yield [currently 1.9 per cent] at 1.60 per cent . . ....
...Stocks seen as most exposed to global trade, such as Caterpillar, John Deere and tech names like Apple and Intel, took a brief dip around lunchtime on Tuesday and trimmed the advance for the S&P 500 to as...
...Facebook, which was dropped from the S&P 500 ESG index last year, has set up a $100m grant programme to support small businesses hit by the coronavirus....
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