Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Manby Mary L TrumpUnflinching account of life on the inside of the Trump family by the former president’s niece....
...The poorest nation in the Americas, Haiti has suffered worsening violence and poverty since the assassination in 2021 of president Jovenel Moïse....
...Seems to me, therefore, that unless I can beat the S&P 500 — in sterling to match my liabilities — I shouldn’t bother. The author is a former portfolio manager....
...The Granolas’ share of the Stoxx Europe 600 index has climbed to 25 per cent, approaching the Magnificent Seven’s 28 per cent weighting in the S&P 500....
Prime Minister Ariel Henry hopes Kenya-led force will shore up security as armed gangs overrun capital
...Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Société Générale have all recently raised their end of year forecasts for the S&P, which has notched more than a dozen record closes in 2024....
Prime Minister Ariel Henry remains out of the country as he pleads for international intervention
...This story has been amended to correct the percentage increase in the S&P 500 on Thursday...
...Bank of America analysts said 75 per cent of investors now expected a so-called soft landing for the economy, leaving 20 per cent forecasting no landing at all and just 5 per cent a hard comedown....
...Japanese stocks traded on a P/E of 67x in 1990. The Nifty 50 traded on a P/E of 34x in 1973....
...Meanwhile, S&P Global will release its purchasing managers’ indices for manufacturing and services, with February readings expected to dip slightly from January levels....
...And, lo: This wasn’t just a narrow large-cap US stockpickers vs S&P 500 issue either....
...In the S&P 500, 64 per cent of stocks have crossed above their 200-day moving average, which is above the historical mean: Every S&P sector has positive returns over the period....
...And — as a chart borrowed from Duncan Lamont at Schroders shows — the extent of concentration in the S&P 500 is not something investors are used to....
...Many are now snapping up options tied to the S&P that profit if the market keeps on rising....
...The S&P PMI survey started this year with three back-to-back expansionary readings after spending much of 2023 in contraction territory....
...This cover is provided in the first instance to the Dali by Britannia P&I Club....
...The group beat expectations for third-quarter growth in its two biggest markets, Europe and North America, where they gained 16.2 per cent and 11.8 per cent, respectively....
...“While all-time highs often generate concerns that markets have peaked, our analysis shows that such worries are not typically warranted,” wrote Solita Marcelli, chief investment officer for the Americas...
...He pointed to the latest updates to long-running research by S&P Dow Jones Indices which shows that over 15 years more than 90 per cent of actively managed large-cap funds underperformed the S&P 500, and...
...In another test, S&P looked at US mutual funds....
...Covered call ETFs generate income by writing and selling options on their underlying holdings — in JEPI’s case, large-cap stocks in the S&P 500....
...Ian Lowes, an adviser based in the north-east, runs StructuredProductReview.com, which has been tracking the growing array of defined outcomes products....
...Funds that track US indices will have a much higher exposure to the Mag 7 (currently about 30 per cent for the S&P 500 or as much as 40 per cent for the Nasdaq)....
International Edition