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...US futures were up, with contracts tracking Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 rising 0.2 per cent while those tracking the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 gained 0.1 per cent ahead of the New York open....
...It will seek to enlist “politically influential individuals and groups” to “further bolster COP28’s overall image and interests”....
...But the S&P closed up less than 1 per cent. Is a soft landing totally baked into prices? Let us know what you think: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...The red cocktail menu booklet looks like a sleeve of soft thin leather but is made of pineapple skin and titled Recipes for our Friends — a homage to 1964’s Recettes pour un ami, a little red book written...
...F1’s US owners Liberty Media are bringing a touch of Super Bowl spectacle to the sport....
...Their music, as lead guitarist Amina puts it, is “a confused mix of hash anthems and sour girl power”....
...As my colleagues Demetri Sevastopulo and Tom Mitchell reported earlier this week, President Xi Jinping recently turned down Biden’s offer of a bilateral summit to hash out which areas can be cordoned off...
...US equities opened lower, with the S&P 500 down 0.1 per cent. Follow Demetri Sevastopulo and Colby Smith on Twitter: @dimi and @colbylsmith...
...Investors in index funds would hardly vote on every motion involving an S&P 500 company. But they may weigh in on controversies — whether Walmart should sell guns, for example....
...The chief lesson the media seem to have taken from 2016’s surprise US election result was that we had missed it because we did not cover the country’s largest demographic group — non-college whites — enough...
...Buly 1803’s fragrant rocks — which resemble lumps of sugar you might put in tea — come bagged in little brown paper envelopes decorated with hand-calligraphed stickers....
...In Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 was off 0.9 per cent while the Topix in Tokyo and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng eked out gains of 0.2 per cent and 0.1 per cent, respectively....
...But investors are wary as US negotiators travel to Beijing for talks next week to hash out a final deal over trade....
...Wall Street’s S&P 500 rose 0.2 per cent, led by gains in the materials and energy sectors that offset weakness in technology and utilities....
...The optimism buoyed markets overnight with the S&P 500 closing 1 per cent higher and recording its third successive daily gain....
...Industrials and information technology were the day’s top performing sectors on the S&P 500, advancing 0.6 per cent and 0.3 per cent respectively....
...The moves came as US negotiators continue talks with their counterparts in Beijing in a bid to hash out a resolution to the trade dispute between the world’s two biggest economies....
...The S&P/ASX 200 was flat despite a 0.4 per cent gain for the basic materials sector....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was down 1.2 per cent as financials stocks fell 1.2 per cent with all four major banks in negative territory for the day....
..., thereby encrypting it, we get mathematical certainty that this hash represents that particular set of data and the order the blocks are in is the correct one....
...Morgan Lewis & Bockius, a law firm, has hired Jeff S. Dinerstein as a Houston-based partner. Dinerstein joins from Jones Day. Before that he worked at Haynes and Boone....
...These go to eleven Today is the tenth anniversary of the S&P 500's peak ahead of the financial crisis....
...He is in London busy making a hash of his latest attempt at a relationship when he receives a letter from a stranger called Alexander Pereira....
...One prominent Mayfair hedgie said: “I didn’t sleep at all last night, I was watching it unfold on television and trading S&P futures. It was a surprise. It’s bad....
...Needless to say, Jeeves impersonates a peer to perfection, while Bertie, who is enlisted to wait on the house guests, makes a hash of things, dropping china, and upsetting the gooseberry fool into the lap...
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