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...In the land of the free (underwritten by VCs), the S&P 500 dropped 1.7 per cent also, with mega cap tech, small caps and cyclicals bearing the most pain. Why?...
...The three joined from the S&P 400 benchmark of midsized companies and will switch places with tax software group H&R Block, Coty, a beauty company, and Kohls, a department store, which are dropping to the...
...Ostwald at ADM Investor Services says the latest corporate bond buying initiative from the Fed sends a worrying message “that financial markets are not functioning, and that it sees the need to bailout USA Inc...
...A spare jet followed the aircraft bearing Jeff Immelt, when he was boss of General Electric, in case of mechanical failure....
...Key for Centrica is maintaining its Baa2/BBB credit ratings with Moody’s/S&P, which we think is possible....
...That’s around 62 times forward revenue, according to data from S&P Capital IQ....
...Shoppers have defected to trendier rivals such as H&M and Zara. The rise of ecommerce has added to the pressure....
...Deleverage was sizeable, with net debt falling to £1.2bn (inc deeply subordinated bonds, pre IFRS16), or down £343m YoY....
...US equity valuations have reached more sensible levels, with the S&P on a forward price/earnings ratio of about 15 times, close to the mean for the past decade....
...Equities In New York, the S&P 500 ended 0.4 per cent higher at 2,809, its best finish since early February, having fallen 0.3 per cent in early trade....
...H & R Block, meanwhile, was the biggest decliner on the benchmark index, tumbling nearly 19 per cent to $24.04 after issuing disappointing margin guidance....
...Mr Bush, nephew of former US president George H.W. Bush, is also stepping down from the board and as president....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 17. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...S&P Dow Jones Indices no longer allows companies with multiple share classes to join various indices including the S&P 500, the index of large US companies....
...The information technology sector of the S&P 500 has led US stock market gains this year and last, which left it vulnerable to profit-taking after the Facebook fallout....
...Japan Tobacco, which makes Winston and Camel cigarettes, also suffered from the failure of P&H, which was responsible for the distribution of around a quarter of JTI’s cigarettes in the UK....
...But since then, the S&P 500 has overtaken it (see chart above)....
...In the past five years, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook, four of the largest companies in the S&P 500, have generated a cool $293bn in free cash flow, according to Bloomberg....
...They now pay effective tax rates of more than 30 per cent versus more than 25 per cent for the broader S&P 500 index, he estimated....
...Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas, which sails from Shanghai, features a skydiving simulator and an observation pod attached to a giant mechanical arm....
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