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...From the UK selection, I’d pick out Bunzl, chiefly because of my colleague Oliver Ralph’s inclusion of the packaging and distribution business in his wry analysis of the “magnificently unglamorous” seven...
...Online payments company PayPal, Dow Jones parent company News Corp, and ride-sharing company Lyft report after the bell....
...Here is the total share count of the S&P, as provided by Howard Silverblatt at S&P Dow Jones Indices: The S&P’s share count hasn’t fallen much since about 2005, despite zillions in buybacks over that time...
...Here is a table of the composition of buybacks in the S&P 500, by sector, from the great Howard Silverblatt of S&P Dow Jones indices. Look at information technology!...
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.5 per cent higher, pushing one of Wall Street’s oldest stock market indices beyond 30,000 for the first time....
...As well as Ms Gadhia, it will include John Amaechi, a former US professional basketball player who is now a psychologist, and Brian Dow, the chief executive of Mental Health UK....
...Mr Loeb has previously targeted companies ranging from Dow Chemical to Sony....
...By December 2015, Dow Chemical and DuPont, the two largest US chemicals groups, were announcing plans for a $130bn merger which would combine seed and crop protection businesses....
...Futures for the S&P 500 were up 0.2 per cent on Tuesday morning and half the gain implied for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Nasdaq 100 futures were up ⅓ of 1 per cent....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.7 per cent to 25,411.52, while the Nasdaq Composite finished 0.7 per cent higher at 7,402.08....
...Mr Occhiello, who is Italian, joined Sabic in 2011 after working at Dow. He was previously a chemistry professor at Turin university....
...Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.4 per cent to 25,331.66, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.6 per cent to 7,395.11....
...A host of retail stocks, including Foot Locker, Gap, Macy’s, Mattel and Ralph Lauren, each closed more than 4 per cent weaker in a broad sell-off for the sector....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite each gained 0.7 per cent. In Europe, the pan-regional Stoxx 600 rose 1.4 per cent to its highest since early December....
...Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed forced car companies to make vehicles safer, not market forces. What we get to are issues of market failure....
...At the close in New York, the S&P 500 was flat at 2,579.9, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4 per cent to 23,516.3, with the Nasdaq Composite also flat at 6,714.9....
...The Dow ended the day down 0.15 per cent at 22,085 — denying it a tenth consecutive day ending at a new closing high....
...The others are Dow Chemical’s $140bn merger with DuPont and Bayer’s $66bn purchase of Monsanto....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.2 per cent to 23,521.65, and the Nasdaq Composite declined 0.1 per cent to 6,758.58....
...The S&P 500 was up 0.4 per cent to 2,365.72 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.3 per cent to 20,663.02. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.7 per cent to 6,055.13....
...Third Point is also agitating for a change to plans at Dow Chemical and DuPont, which are preparing the restructuring that will follow their merger....
...The company makes high-end sportswear for companies ranging from Nike and Adidas to Ralph Lauren and Under Armour, as well as clothing for retailer brands such as JC Penney and Sears....
...The others are Dow Chemical’s $147bn merger with DuPont and Bayer’s $66bn purchase of Monsanto....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.05 per cent to 22,106.07, while the Nasdaq Composite slid 0.2 per cent to 6,374.38....
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