Hints and tips:
...The challenge to mutual fund dominance has been brewing since State Street launched the very first US ETF in 1993, an S&P 500 tracking fund known as SPY that now has $500bn in assets....
...S&P currently rates it below that level....
...Chief risk officer Rodney Sunada-Wong sought to remove inaccuracies and misleading statements from Mashinsky’s YouTube broadcasts....
...“I think the schemes are scared [of account-to-account payments],” said Rodney Bain, co-founder and US president of payments fintech APEXX Global....
...S&P analysts tracked a total of 29 US fintech deals worth a little over $5bn in August, after recording less than $1bn in deals in June and July combined....
...“To our knowledge, a lot of the cable that is stolen is used for illegal electrical connections in the townships,” Quintin Starkey, chair of South Africa’s Metal Recyclers Association, told me....
...But genial rapper Rodney P makes a good case, care of BBC4, for jazz funk as a defiantly British riposte to the American soul juggernaut of the 1970s....
...The S&P also finished 1992 in positive territory after riots following the acquittal of Los Angeles police officers who had beaten Rodney King, another black man....
...Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (Netflix): “It’s horrific, but you absolutely should watch it if you can stomach it.” — Kerri McEvoy, London, via Instagram The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson (Netflix)...
...The company was also making “good progress in the US with gains in overall market share,” Rodney Sacks, chief executive, told analysts in a Q&A following the company’s annual meeting on Thursday....
...S&P 500 futures notched a 0.6 per cent rise while the dollar index, a measure of the greenback against a basket of peers, was down 0.3 per cent....
...The S&P 500 was up 1 per cent at a new record high of 2,652.80, led by a respective rises of 1.7 per cent and 1.6 per cent rise for the industrials and materials sectors....
...Among other big name retirees with no announced plans are Jeb Hensarling, Bob Goodlatte, Joe Barton, Ed Royce, Darrell Issa and Rodney Frelinghuysen. Some of them are in safe seats....
...The advance in Monster Beverage shares came as the broader S&P 500 slipped from record levels....
...On a call with analysts, chief executive Rodney McMullen said the company was seeing positive indicators as the economy continued to recover....
...After being priced at 225p, the shares hit a low of 186½p as concerns grew over slowing sales growth at the company and Partnership, its rival, which also listed last year....
...Elliott’s five nominees include Harvey Golub, the former chief executive of American Express, and Rodney Chase, a former deputy chief executive of BP....
...The S&P 500 could break through to a new record high early next year if the US avoids the fiscal cliff. The rally in stock prices since March 2009 has been the Rodney Dangerfield of bull markets....
...Helen Deeble, chief executive, P&O Ferries Division and president, UK Chamber of Shipping. Tracey Emin, artist. John Fenwick, deputy chairman, Fenwick stores group....
...Rodney Sullivan is head of publications at CFA Institute...
...the inner city riots, notably in Detroit and Los Angeles, of 1965-67 and in proposing reforms of the Los Angeles police department after inner-city Watts erupted in flames following the brutal beating of Rodney...
...The bank’s top-ranked teams included the chemicals team led by Timothy Jones and Rodney Whitehead’s retailing group as well as Benjamin Fidler’s aerospace team....
...Shares, though up 7½p at 123p on Monday, remain down 37 per cent on the year – well off peaks of 400p in 2007. Goals is now trading on a less fashionable full-year price/earnings ratio of nine times....
...For instance, between September 1 2008 and November 30 2008, the S&P 500 fell 29.6 per cent and the S&P 500 CBOE BuyWrite index declined 28.5 per cent....
...Rodney Sullivan, CFA, is head of publications at CFA Institute and editor of the Financial Analysts Journal...
International Edition