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...Yet Arm is still a relative minnow. Only 10 out of 76 companies in the US’s S&P 500 technology index have smaller revenues....
...The S&P 500 sits on over $2tn of cash, so when we talk about how deep this can get, I think we’re going to see more commitments like Netflix’s that are not just saying, ‘let me throw down $20mn’ and actually...
...On Monday, S&P confirmed that it would snatch IHS Markit in an all-stock acquisition at an enterprise value of $44bn — the latest in a frenzied consolidation among information services companies....
...Trust the data: S&P’s massive play for IHS Markit In a year marred by buzzwords such as “unprecedented” and “uncertainty”, there’s a certain comfort in the resoluteness of data — offering succinct answers...
...The problem started, said Li Ying, an analyst at S&P Global (China) Ratings, where shareholders were “using the banks as ATMs”. “Sometimes they create shell companies and then take lots of loans....
...So we have adopted a hybrid for our end-of-year rankings: a percentage gain with a floor of $10bn market value at the start of 2020, using data from S&P Global....
...Revenues are rising 30 per cent a year to reach $1.6bn on a pro forma basis annually, according to disclosures that JAB made to rating agency S&P Global Ratings....
...S&P 500 futures pointed to gains of 0.2 per cent on Wall Street on Friday. Markets in China, South Korea and Taiwan were closed for the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday....
...micro, small, and medium enterprises....
...And its bid for his brother’s Bhushan P & S faces a rival offer from an expatriate entrepreneur who sees in the new bankruptcy law a chance to return to India....
...Mr Hooke examined funds run by the 18 largest private equity managers and found that three-quarters, including some funds run by KKR, Silver Lake and Bain, failed to beat the S&P 500 consistently between...
...“We see little immediate synergy between SIPG’s core port business and this new financial investment,” S&P added....
...Even without it, a multiple of 8 times forward earnings based on S&P CIQ data are a decent one....
...It would be hard to find the head of a publicly listed group doing something so egregious in 2016, but the total spent by S&P 500 companies on personal corporate jet flights was still roughly $40m a year...
...Data from 54 Chinese companies that did overseas deals last year show that many are “highly leveraged”, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...The median debt multiple of the 54 Chinese companies that publish financial figures and did deals overseas last year was 5.4, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...What of the future for corporations? Richard Foster, a Yale University management professor, calculates that in the 1920s US companies lasted on the S&P index for about 65 years on average....
...venture Tesco is in exclusive talks with China Resources Enterprise about forming a joint venture in the country that will see the UK supermarket group significantly cut its exposure to world’s second-largest...
...(Bloomberg) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: UP Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +225.21 (+1.66%) at 13,755 Topix up +11.11 (+0.97%) at 1,155 Hang Seng up +282.34 (+1.29%) at 22,089 US markets S&P 500 up +16.28 (+1.04%)...
...Shares in Moody's Corporation , another rating agency, fell 10.7 per cent to $49.45, although it was not expected to be named in the S&P suit....
...in accounting – as a proportion of sales, according to the S&P Capital IQ database....
...Diane Vazza, head of global fixed income research at S&P, said 12-month trailing default rates in the US have been rising steadily in recent months, and may climb to 3.6 per cent by March of 2013 from 2.7...
...“Triple B” actually means Baa3 from Moody’s, or BBB- from S&P and Fitch — in other words, one notch above junk — or BBB from DBRS. Hard not to read this as targeted at Spanish banks....
...“Technically, stocks enjoy a seasonal tailwind early in the first quarter,” said Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at Robert W Baird, who said the S&P 500 could be set for “an attack on the 1,300...
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