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...In North America, real internal growth was down 5.8 per cent on falling sales of frozen food. Sales in the region fell 7.7 on a reported basis to SFr5.8bn....
...The central bank also sharply raised its forecast for US economic growth this year, while saying inflation would be slightly higher than expected....
...Bank of America analysts said 75 per cent of investors now expected a so-called soft landing for the economy, leaving 20 per cent forecasting no landing at all and just 5 per cent a hard comedown....
...Even smaller stocks are finally catching up a little, with the Russell Midcap index (+4.3 per cent) and the Russell 2000 (+3.6 per cent) leading the Russell 1000 (+3.2 per cent) in March, notes Bank of America...
...The S&P 500 closed at a record high, finishing a busy week of corporate earnings, central bank announcements and labour market data on a positive note....
...S&P already holds a negative outlook on the country....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 dropped 1 per cent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 2 per cent....
...When everyone was bearish on America at the beginning of 2023, I was its biggest fan. I bought an S&P 500 fund a few weeks later, selling again in September for a tidy 12 per cent profit....
...Jeffrey S Merrifield and his team at Pillsbury topped the energy transition category in the FT’s 2023 North America Innovative Lawyers Awards...
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...“These actions are a departure from the historically nominal financial penalties imposed for breaches,” according to S&P....
...Tech stocks, which played a leading role in propelling the S&P 500 to a record high in January, fell on Wednesday....
...The rest of the eurozone “saw the best performance . . . despite growth slowing slightly”, S&P said....
...Poor data undermines trust and skews forecasting — as several central banks, including the Bank of England, discovered when it came to inflation....
...Wall Street stocks continued their ascent on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 adding 0.5 per cent — edging closer to a record high....
...At the same time, investors are hoping that corporate earnings will start to rebound as the US central bank manages to bring inflation under control without causing a severe recession....
...Shell alone has contributed almost a third of the FTSE 100’s gains in 2024....
...Wall Street futures were also little changed, with contracts tracking the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite down 0.1 per cent ahead of the New York trading session....
...New drilling techniques have opened up access to enormous oil and gas reserves in North America....
...Dieter S has been on the radar of German security authorities for some time....
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...The benchmark S&P 500 dropped 0.6 per cent on Friday, with 54 per cent of stocks falling, and tech the worst performer....
...This is likely to worry European Central Bank officials about the risk of persistent inflation that is making them wary of cutting borrowing costs too soon....
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