Hints and tips:
...The stock had risen 27 per cent over the past five years to Tuesday, compared with a 64 per cent rise in the S&P 500 oil refining and marketing index over the same period....
...The single largest ETF by assets is State Street’s SPDR S&P 500 index tracker, but BlackRock and Vanguard offer 15 of the next 16....
...Luda by Grant Morrison (Europa Editions) Comics writer Morrison’s debut prose offering traces the attraction and antagonism between an ageing drag artist and her youthful rival in a hedonistic, phantasmagorical...
...On the equity side, small-cap stocks continue to be the story: while the S&P 500 has shrugged, the Russell 2000 is up 6 per cent since Jay Powell started talking....
...True, the biggest of the bunch is Wm Morrison, a company for which it would be virtual insanity to list elsewhere. After that, you get a far more global bunch....
...Data provider CFRA noted that the SPDR S&P China ETF (GXC) lost 12 per cent in the year to December 11 while the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF (EMXC) was up 12 per cent over the same period....
...After race riots in the west London neighbourhood of Notting Hill in 1958 — sparked by a white gang’s assault of Majbritt Morrison, a Swede married to a Jamaican — Trinidadian-born journalist and activist...
...From about £10bn in 2015, its market capitalisation has dropped to just under £5.5bn, according to data provider S&P Capital IQ....
...As Goldman Sachs’ Alec Phillips says, with Alphaville’s emphasis below: 2. The downgrade contains no new fiscal information....
...There are only three S&P 500 staples stocks that offer dividend yields higher than the 5.22 per cent available on a three-month Treasury (they are Altria, Walgreens Boots, and Phillip Morris)....
...The S&P 500 was 0.2 per cent lower at pixel time....
...Rachel Phillips, solicitor in the London office of JMW Solicitors, says this may be a case of maternity discrimination....
...Lawmakers narrowly averted a default in 2011, but only after an S&P downgrade to the government’s creditworthiness and a market rollercoaster....
...Phillip Tetlock for the pointer....
...overseas museums to buy British art is misguided / From Martin P Levy, member of the RCEWA, 1997-2007, London SW1, UK...
...“The intercept resulted in a dangerous manoeuvre which posed a safety threat to the P-8 aircraft and its crew,” the department added....
...Phillip Kimber, a consumer analyst with E&P Financial Group, said that during the coronavirus pandemic and the 2008 financial crisis, in many markets, including the UK, consumption of alcohol at home increased...
...After much thought, my five guests are Toni Morrison, Paul Newman, Samuel Eto’o, Okot p’Bitek and Miriam Makeba....
...And one video: Beloved British grocer Wm Morrison’s unencumbered property portfolio made it a top leveraged buyout target for some of the world’s biggest banks....
...Australia: Scott Morrison, prime minister, will face Labor leader Anthony Albanese in their first televised debate ahead of the May 21 election....
...However, since announcing that target, Morrison has proposed no new policies to achieve it....
...“There is plenty of trading happening but in terms of order size it has been smaller in recent months,” said Mary Phillips, deputy head of portfolio management at Dimensional....
...The S&P Refining & Marketing index is up nearly 50 per cent this year, even as the broader market has fallen....
...Morrison has presented song evenings over the years....
...Markets: Futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were up 0.1 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively....
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