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...What were once fairly rough measures of financial markets — often calculated with slide rules by a few niche newspapers as a dull but worthy service to readers — now exerts power over them....
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...A fierce year-end rally that began at the end of October has given way to a wheezing sideways market in January, during which two-thirds of the S&P has had negative price returns and the gains, such as they...
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...EV charging problems were weighing on car companies, JD Power said in a report last month. “EVs are still a clear part of the product road map. That hasn’t changed....
...We found the combined portfolio of the two men had generated a total return of 113 per cent over the past decade, below the 165 per cent gain Buffett registered and the 211 per cent advance by the S&P 500...
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...There’s still a very narrow market leadership on full display.” The S&P 500 is up 4 per cent year to date....
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