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...According to S&P Global, in the first nine months of 2023 global private equity investments had an aggregate value of $365.3bn, a decline of 44 per cent year over year....
...Now, it seems to be business as usual, something investors are pricing into share valuations, as information technology has grown to represent one-quarter of the value of the S&P 500....
...That’s the subject of Werner Herzog’s new film Family Romance, LLC (opening in the UK later this year)....
...If Alphaville LLC, a theoretical manufacturer of a useless widget, had a German plant with over a 1,000 employees, a decision to close said plant would come with a wave of painful costs....
...The proportion of US junk bonds trading at distressed levels in November hit the highest level of the year led by retail and restaurants and telecommunications, S&P Global Ratings said on Monday....
...Department stores (-0.6 per cent), cafes, restaurants and takeaways (-0.1 per cent), and clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (-0.1 per cent) also fell....
...About 21 per cent of retail and restaurant companies are now on S&P’s “distressed” list, making it the most distressed US sector. Telecommunications was second, with 15.5 per cent....
...Futures tip both the FTSE 100 and S&P 500 to open 0.1 per cent higher....
...Darden Restaurants, the owner of well-known chains including Olive Garden and Capital Grille, saw its stock fall on Wall Street on Thursday after a disappointing earnings announcement....
...This morning, the yen is flat at Y113.81 per dollar, while the yield on 10-year JGBs is down 3.4 basis points at -0.039 per cent....
...The transition will also require “significant capital expenditure upfront”, S&P claims....
...The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.8 per cent....
...Macy’s late on Wednesday lowered its 2015 earnings guidance after same-store sales fell 4.7 per cent in the months of November and December combined, and S&P expects Nordstrom’s sales to be “below expectations...
...Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s cut the US restaurant chain’s corporate credit rating to ‘BB’ from ‘BBB’ . The three-notch reduction pushed Yum’s bond rating into junk territory....
...At lunchtime Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was down 1.6 per cent, Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was down 1.8 per cent and Japan’s Nikkei 225 was down 4 per cent....
...Chicken wing restaurant chain, Wingstop, experienced the biggest opening-trade pop in June, rising nearly 61 per cent, but that was half of the 124 per cent gain seen in Shake Shack shares, when they started...
...The National Retail Federation has forecast a 4.1 per cent growth in November and December sales to $616.9bn, excluding cars, gas and restaurant sales, from a year ago....
...By close the S&P 500 rose 0.3 per cent to 1,992.37, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4 per cent to 17,039.49. The Nasdaq Composite added 0.1 per cent to 4,532.10....
...Market Index down -0.53% at 1,010 Europe FTSE down -0.51% at 6,528 RTS down -2.34% at 1,176 Warsaw Wig down -1.37% at 51,671 FTSE 300 Eurotop down -0.43% at 1,307 Americas DJIA down -0.89% at 16,027 S&...
...P 500 up +0.49% at 1,960 Bovespa down -1.58% at 53,426 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.27% at 15,308 Topix up +0.21% at 1,263 Hang Seng up +1.45% at 23,198 Shanghai Composite up +0.65% at 2,039 MSCI Asia ex-Japan...
...Consider definedcontribution retirement plans like 401(k)s....
...The benchmark S&P 500 fell 1.25 per cent to end at 1,865.09 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.96 per cent to 16,412.71....
...The S&P 500 closed 0.3 per cent higher at 1,433.57, trading near its multi-year highs....
...Makinson once again met privately with other Publisher Defendant CEOs and the CEO of one non-defendant publisher in a private room of a different Manhattan restaurant, Alto....
...Double rooms at the hotel start from €883, room only This article was amended to remove a mistaken assertion that the political party Syriza had won the first of 2012’s elections...
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