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...Oklahoma, another oil producer, banned JPMorgan, BlackRock and others from doing business with the state in 2023....
...Fink described the mismatch between what Americans were saving and what they would need as “a problem so big and urgent that government and corporate leaders [need to] stop business as usual [and] step out...
...Small caps and value stocks have not done as well as big caps and growth, but they have done darn well: More than 1,300 of the S&P 1,500 stocks have positive returns over the period....
...“If these conditions continue, this will push some people who were on the cusp into doing deals this year.”...
...“We’ve seen more product launches and product conversions in the passive space,” says Hortense Bioy, global head of sustainability research at Morningstar. “Passive is doing a killing.”...
...Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google have benefited from growth in global enterprise spending on cloud services, while Meta and Google were buoyed by increased advertising and consumer spending as concerns...
...The S&P 100 Vix that Bob Whaley had designed was untradable. Almost no one traded S&P 100 options. The Vix was just there, doing basically nothing....
...But the dispersion of their returns has been very wide, as this chart shows: Amazon has barely outperformed the S&P 500, Nvidia has gone absolutely bananas, and the rest have covered the range in-between...
...The S&P Global Clean Energy index has lost more than 30 per cent this year. Companies linked to increased spending on US infrastructure have also helped sustainable funds....
...So, you know, put that in your pipe and smoke it....
...BPY has $18bn of secured debt maturing next year: “We’re having no problems doing refinancings”, Flatt said....
...It’s a nuanced change to the naked eye, but younger outfits such as London’s Guts Gallery talk of “championing instead of representing”, marking the shift in business models for the next generation of gallerists...
...Smoke at the window, flying down the 405. How am I doing? It’s scrapping too much. It’s the FT’s US labour and equality correspondent. The great Taylor Nicole Rogers. Taylor Nicole RogersHi Lilah....
...“In terms of dislocation, this was as pronounced as it gets, where underwriters for any new transactions were essentially out of business.”...
...Having entered the new millennium as its head of global investment banking, he continued to rise though further international posts as Nomura made its disastrous acquisition of post-collapse Lehman Brothers.Ultimately...
...ICE) and S&P....
...Business travel is back. Across the S&P 500, too, analysts have grown cheerier (that is, less negative) on earnings....
...Is the American left in the business of defeating Trump, or merely of feeling unsullied when he wins? I sometimes wonder....
...And the tax cuts there were funded by a number of targeted tax rises or partly funded by them, with tax rises on, for example, people who smoke vapes will be paying a bit more....
...It has created 79 companies, ranging from a coffee producer, to a new airline, a waste-recycling business, a defence firm and even a vape business....
...Don’t fly across Europe for your skiing holiday or business meeting and then complain that the poor world isn’t doing enough on climate and that BP is still making jet fuel....
...The stock market isn’t as representative of the global economy as it used to be....
...Doing business with Communist China presents a unique, substantial, pressing risk that warrants dedicated reporting. 2....
...Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said that “while the further fall in business activity in December signals a strong possibility of recession, the survey also...
...“Upon closing later this year, our two powerhouse organisations will combine forces to offer a customer-driven combination of scale, global presence and the industry’s broadest range of global financial...
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