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...In recent years, SMI has expanded into providing components for VR and AR glasses, using tiny cameras and computer-vision software placed inside a headset to analyse where the wearer is looking....
...“The attention on SNL since the Trump administration took office is paying off well for NBC,” SMI said....
...to catch up to ratings,” said Scott Grunther, SMI’s executive vice-president of media....
...In 2006, Mr Terry became a director of Turing SMI Group, an IT services company....
...Jacobs Holding is not the only investor in recent months to take advantage of the strong performance of the Swiss stock market index, the SMI, which is up 55 per cent since mid 2011....
...The Swiss SMI index closed up 1.1 per cent to 8,407.61 Danish lender Danske Bank profited from an upgrade by analysts at Carnegie....
...The group’s SMI-listed shares rose 4.5 per cent to SFr88.80 on the news....
...The Swiss SMI index soared 2.9 per cent to 7,020.46 as Swiss traders reacted to the news on their first day of 2013 trading. Swatch shares listed on the SMI index gained 6.7 per cent to SFr84.05....
...Shares rallied 1 per cent to SFr63.90, but the Swiss SMI index fell 0.3 per cent to 6,655.77....
...Shares in Swiss-based jeweller Richemont fell 5.1 per cent to SFr60.85 against a 0.1 per cent fall on the wider Swiss SMI index to 6,503.30. Watchmaker Swatch also suffered heavy selling....
...According to Fidessa, a trading technology company, SIX has a 68 per cent market share of the Swiss blue-chip SMI index, with Chi-X Europe grabbing a 20 per cent share....
...The SMI index climbed 2.4 per cent to 6,177.06, outperforming the pan-European FTSE Eurofirst 300, which remained at 968.58, losing early gains as investors focused on Tuesday’s meeting between France and...
...The deal is the latest move by SMI, which is largely dependent on its Japanese non-life insurance business, to diversify operations for a greater emphasis on life insurance markets overseas....
...Based on SMI’s market value of about $11bn and net debt, the deal would be worth about Y2,000bn ($24.5bn), according to calculations by Bloomberg....
...Eurex dominates trading in derivatives on indices such as the Euro Stoxx 50, Dax and SMI Swiss index, as well as German and eurozone equity options on single stocks....
...Eurex dominates trading in derivatives on indices such as the Eurostoxx 50, Dax and SMI Swiss index, as well as German and eurozone equity options on single stocks, NYSE Liffe dominates the market for UK...
...On Switzerland’s Smi, inspection services group SGS dropped 3 per cent to SFr1,538.00 after its first-half results disappointed, and even though Natixis raised the stock to “buy” from “neutral”....
...There are three versions, based on the DJ EuroStoxx, Dax and SMI indices....
...Meanwhile, drug maker Novartis, which accounts for 16 per cent of the Swiss SMI index by weighting, added 1.7 per cent to SFr50.05, following an upgrade by Zuercher Kantonalbank....
...SMI’s strength is dominance of the market for seamless steel pipes, used in demanding applications such as deep-water oil drilling....
...We expect further asset sales in the weeks ahead from both quoted investments and the Venture Capital portfolio (£655m value at 30.09.08), SMI portfolio (£228m at 30.09.08) together with some unquoted buyout...
...[Disclosure: SMI has no holdings in any (vice) presidential candidates]...
...The SMI index gained 1.5 per cent to 8,920.17. Logistics group Kuehne & Nagel climbed 2.7 per cent to SFr91, and private bank Julius Baer rose 2.3 per cent to SFr137.30....
...Among the biggest fallers were Julius Baer, the Swiss private bank which led the SMI index down with a fall of 5.3 per cent to SFr105.30, and National Bank of Greece, down 5.2 per cent to €31.30....
...The SMI dropped 0.4 per cent to 7,515.23, led down by Roche after a medical journal published reports of resistance to its Tamiflu bird flu treatment. Roche shares fell 1.3 per cent to SFr196.20....
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