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...Last month S&P upgraded Paraguay’s rating to BB+, one rung below investment grade, bringing it in line with Moody’s and Fitch....
...With money continuing to pour into passively managed funds last year, there have been calls for greater scrutiny of the outsized role of index providers like MSCI, FTSE and S&P Global....
...“Time for you to leave,” Salomon Brothers’ cigar-chomping chief executive John Gutfreund told Michael Bloomberg....
...That is the view of the Noé Group, the family office of the UK-based Noé family, which made its money in property and is now headed by Leo Noé, son of the founder, Salomon....
...It echoes the words of Henry Kaufman, Salomon Brothers’ former economist: “Money matters, but credit counts.”...
...There is “lots of optimism out there”, said Roelof Salomons, professor of investment theory and asset management at the University of Groningen....
...According to an estimate by S&P global ratings, the shutdown could cost real GDP about $1.2bn per week. The longer it lasts, the more it costs the US economy....
...The S&P 500 index and Dow Jones Industrial Average traded in negative territory most of the day on global trade concerns....
...Bruegel and OCP Policy Centre Andreas Freytag Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena Simon J Evenett University of St Gallen Christian von Haldenwang German Development Institute Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz...
...In the 10 years following 1999, Berkshire’s shares rose by almost 80 per cent while the S&P fell....
...I tried to correct mistakes at Salomon [Brothers]. People make mistakes....
...The Vix volatility index, the CBOE’s measurement of short-term volatility implied by S&P 500 option prices, has been hovering around all-time lows in recent years....
...“Ultimately for markets, Mr Draghi was neither hawkish nor dovish with regard to the euro or the eurozone, which has been welcomed by the single currency,” said Manuel Ortiz-Olave, market analyst at Monex...
...Last year, revenues for S&P Dow Jones Indices, MSCI and FTSE Russell rose between 7 and 17 per cent....
...An analysis in 2015 by Bespoke Investment Group of S&P 500 stock ratings found that, of the 12,122 ratings, just 6.67 per cent carried a sell label. The temptations to be bullish are clear....
...“It’s a tectonic shift,” said Henry Kaufman, the former Salomon Brothers chief economist and the first analyst dubbed “Dr Doom” for correctly calling the last bond bear market in the 1970s....
...The S&P 500 dipped 0.1 per cent on Friday in New York, while the Eurofirst 300 fell 0.6 per cent, paring back this week’s gains....
...Others named are: Geraldo A Ortiz-Jimenez, 25 Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25 Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 Juan P....
...group at Salomon Brothers ran its own parallel reckoning of the index....
...The real Sarao is accused of repeatedly performing a slightly more complex version of this strategy with E-minis (futures contracts on the value of the S&P 500 stock index)....
...He knows of what he speaks, for whenever he used to, a generation ago as the well regarded chief economist of Salomon Brothers, aka Dr Doom, his every carefully selected word and observation had the same...
...Guggenheim Investments’ S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF celebrated its 10th birthday in April, outperforming the S&P 500 every year since its inception....
...There is no FTSE 100 or S&P 500 to track.”...
...Quite possibly Brazil, according to Bruno Rovai and Marcelo Salomon over at Barclays....
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