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...“Overall, today’s release will add to the [BoE]’s unease about the stickiness of inflation,” said Ashley Webb, economist at Capital Economics....
...And films such as 2021’s Sound of Metal and slightly better representation on reality TV are helping to showcase both the challenges and achievements of the deaf community....
...Ashley Webb, at the consultancy Capital Economics, said that while PMIs were “rarely an accurate predictor of GDP growth”, the recent trend supported the view that GDP would contract during the third quarter...
...Ashley Webb, UK economist at Capital Economics, said this was “not big enough to constitute a bank run”....
...“April’s flash PMIs suggest the economy is still proving resilient to the dual drags of high inflation and high interest rates going into [the second quarter of 2023]”, said Ashley Webb, UK economist at...
...“The coming months may still be a struggle for retailers,” warned Ashley Webb, UK economist at Capital Economics....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of Money Week. The views expressed are personal. merryn@ft.com...
...The S&P 500 is trading on a forward price-to-earnings ratio of around 17 times — a bit above the historical average at a time when most other things are rather worse than average....
...“Nvidia is the clear leader, but two-thirds of [the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index’s] components are outperforming the S&P 500 year-to-date and more than a third are up triple the rate of the S&P 500,”...
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal. She holds Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust...
...The S&P Global/Cips flash UK composite output index, a measure of activity in the private sector, dropped to a 21-month low of 47.1 in October from 49.1 in September....
...SMAC 0723’s massive gravity bends space, causing the distant light from the galaxies behind to curve around it....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal...
...If you really believe in democracy and equality — and the S in ESG — do you want to be invested in a company that messes with that? Of course you don’t....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal. She has holdings in gold and shares in Shell...
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal; merryn@ft.com; Twitter: @MerrynSW....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal; merryn@ft.com; Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...With that in mind, it is worth noting that the FTSE 100, with its reasonably valued income generating stocks, is outperforming the S&P 500 — so much so that it is now on track to have outperformed over a...
...Today in the US, one of the Big Three is the top shareholder in 495 of the companies in the S&P 500, the index for 500 of the biggest companies in the US....
...Its ultra-precise mirrors and lenses are so accurate that they are capable of a precision 200 times greater than the James Webb Space Telescope....
...The p/e of the S&P 500 is currently 30 times. That of the FTSE 100 is more like 15 times....
...The building, designed by Sir Aston Webb, is as important to me as what is inside it. I am also really drawn to the Alhambra Palace – the courtyards, the gardens, the tiles....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. Views are personal. merryn@ft.com....
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