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...Wall Street notched its best weekly performance since July with the S&P 500 up 0.9 per cent on the day and 3.8 per cent higher for the week....
...Energy stocks accounted for 16 per cent of the value of companies on the S&P 500 in 2008. Today that figure is less than 3 per cent. But the problem has become urgent....
...Clearly, tariffs have become a more frequent topic of discussion on the earnings calls of S&P 500 companies in recent quarters....
...for the S&P’s $1.4tn market cap decline last week....
...S&P Global Platts reported this week that Opec’s crude production dropped in May to its lowest level in more than a year, driven by falls in output from Venezuela and Nigeria....
...Markets at 0805 GMT Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +387.82 (+1.68%) at 23,486 Topix up +33.73 (+1.84%) at 1,870 Hang Seng down -160.94 (-0.49%) at 32,726 US markets S&P 500 up +1.38 (+0.05%) at 2,824 DJIA...
...Radical policies should include rethinking the shareholder value form of corporate governance which has seen S&P 500 companies spend over $3 trillion on share buybacks in the last decade (to boost stock...
...The SEC’s coming litigation against Craig will be led by Ms Ro and John S. Yun of the San Francisco Regional Office....
...The S&P 500 companies as a whole have spent more than $6 trillion on such payments between 2005 and 2014, bolstering share prices and the markets even as they were cutting jobs and investment....
...On Wall Street, the S&P 500 capped a miserable January with a 1.3 per cent dip to 1,995, in spite of a strong rally for oil prices....
...(Financial Times) “The U.S....
...Governor Glenn Stevens kept the overnight cash-rate target at 2.5 percent, saying in a statement in Sydney “the most prudent course is likely to be a period of stability in interest rates.”...
...(Financial Times) Goldman provides art-backed loan to Steven Cohen, the billionaire co-founder of SAC Capital, the hedge fund that pleaded guilty to insider trading last year....
...Irish citizenship (Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -24.34 (-0.17%) at 14,564 Topix down -2.42 (-0.20%) at 1,203 Hang Seng down -298.19 (-1.30%) at 22,603 US markets S&...
...Markets: Asian bourses followed US stocks higher after blue chips led the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fresh record highs....
...US index futures portray the S&P 500 gaining 4 points to 1,696, a move that would leave Wall Street’s premier barometer challenging Monday’s record close writes the FT’s Global Markets sommelier Jamie Chisholm...
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: UP Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +9.76 (+0.10%) at 9,555 Topix up +2.69 (+0.34%) at 791.43 Hang Seng up +38.25 (+0.17%) at 22,288 US markets S&P 500 up +4.66 (+0.33%...
...-12/u-s-envoy-to-libya-killed-as-protests-flare-in-north-africa.html Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +0.01% at 978.58 Americas DJIA up +0.07% at 13,333 S&P 500 up +0.21% at 1,437 Bovespa...
...On Wall Street, the S&P 500 struggled to keep momentum after having had its biggest one-day advance on Monday in more than two months....
...down -0.08% at 429.44 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.08% at 5,435 Currencies €/$ 1.29 (1.29) $/¥ 77.67 (77.84) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.13 at 116.09 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.10 at 97.11 100 Oz...
...Here’s the study’s authors, Michael Thompson, Robert Keiser and Steven Krull of S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies, in their own words: We used the difference in current credit default swap (CDS) rates for...
...U.S. debt has a “top notch credit rating” and is “very safe,” he said. S&P estimates that 48 percent of all U.S. Treasuries are held abroad, “mostly by central banks,” Kraemer said....
...Zubaid Ahmad, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Securities Roger Altman, Co-Founder and Chairman, Evercore Partners, Inc. Omar S....
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