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...In contrast, the S&P 500’s price-to-book ratio is close to the record 5 times it touched in 2021 and 2000 (the Nasdaq’s P/B ratio is close to 7.5 times)....
...S&P Global Ratings said in a report on Thursday that triple C borrowers would “contend with weak cash flow and elevated interest expenses this year”, while “defaults in 2024 [would] largely come from consumer-facing...
...S&P rates EDF as BBB compared with AA for French government bonds....
...S&P this month downgraded Thames Water’s top-ranked class A debt to BBB-, the bottom rung of investment-grade, just one notch above junk....
...As much as 45 per cent of the financial companies in the S&P 500 have no women among their “named executive officers”, those C-suite members important enough to have their pay officially disclosed, according...
...The Hinkley Point C project is likely to exceed the revised £32.7bn estimate EDF put on it earlier this year after its Chinese partner CGN halted payments to cover mounting cost overruns....
...S&P Global currently assesses the country’s foreign currency ratings in the “CCC” category. Clearly, the risk of a sovereign restructuring is real....
...What is the trailing P/E ratio of the top-10 stocks in the S&P 500 today? They are more overvalued than the top-10 were in the tech bubble....
...Between mid-February and the end of May, the S&P was flat to down....
...The total value of the UK’s bonds borrowed by investors to wager on a fall in prices last week dropped below £65bn, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence — its lowest level since at least...
...The company’s triple C plus credit rating is one of the lowest assigned by the big rating agencies, with analysts at S&P Global warning its upcoming debt maturities “present significant refinancing risk”...
...By June next year, S&P Global is predicting the US default rate will rise to 4.5 per cent, up from 1.7 per cent at the start of 2023....
...Unlike the flat S&P 500, the Roundhill meme-stock ETF has had a bumper month. It’s up 10 per cent in July, and up nearly 60 per cent on the year....
...The organisation’s psychology-based transformation programmes have been taken up by 62 per cent of FTSE 100 companies and 59 per cent of the S&P 100. Leading by example, one could say....
...Atos is burning cash flow at an average of €385mn annually through 2025, according to S&P Global estimates....
...The S&P 500 is up 11.8 per cent since then through today’s close . . . It is back slightly above its 200-day moving average....
...Laura Rood, New York City...
...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...
...S&P Global Ratings noted in December that Citadel Securities’ “complex systems and algorithms” created elevated operational risk, even if it has “strong risk-management capabilities”....
...P 500 index....
...The benchmark S&P 500 ended the quarter down nearly 5 per cent....
...hotel (Wall Street Journal) S&P’s $44bn IHS deal set to win EU antitrust approval (Reuters)...
...A report by S&P Global Market Intelligence found that companies with female executives have higher profits and stock performances....
...Data for 2020 show that fewer than 6 per cent of the chief executives of S&P 500 companies are women, while the proportion of female executive or senior-level officials and managers is just over a quarter...
...Lex research shows former McKinseyites sit on boards or in C-suites of more than 70 S&P 500 companies, more than a quarter of the index’s market capitalisation of over $30tn....
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