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...The Nasdaq Composite closed 0.3 per cent higher while the S&P 500 dropped 0.1 per cent....
...The forward P/E of the Mag 7 is 31. The rest of the S&P 500, excluding the Mag 7 and four stocks with negative expected earnings, has a forward P/E of 19....
...However, debt rating agency S&P on Monday upgraded Ford to investment-grade, citing its improving margins and a cost reduction programme that will “more than offset higher labour-related costs”....
...“It’s just nuts . . . something very unusual is going on,” said Matt Rogers at the Commodity Weather Group, a consultancy....
...during its full-year trading update that pricing would return to “normal levels” this year, and could even deflate in certain South Asian countries, while Nestlé’s chief financial officer François-Xavier Roger...
...Only six diversity officers at S&P 500 companies have become named executive officers, according to ISS Corporate Solutions, a data provider. The roles have also faced mounting criticism....
...And on Wall Street, the S&P 500 has hit record highs this year. So what’s going on? Shouldn’t voters love all of this?...
...A decade later S&P 500 options were ascendant, so the exchange had already started planning a redesign and the launch of linked volatility products....
...Ronaldo and Messi are generational talents — the Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic of football....
...from VerityData, S&P Capital IQ and regulatory filings shows — even if other top bankers have proved far more willing to sell than the boss of America’s biggest bank....
...Economic data: S&P Global services PMI data is released for the eurozone, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, while the European Central Bank’s Governing Council is due to make a May rate announcement...
...Roger Lee, head of UK equity strategy at Investec, said: “Inflation falling below 8 per cent after months of higher than expected reports was psychologically important....
...The S&P 500 ended the day down one and a half per cent and the yield on the policy sensitive two-year Treasury hit its highest level in 16 years. The FT’s Colby Smith has more....
...Marc Filippino Taylor Nicole Rogers is the FT’s labour and equality correspondent. Thanks, Taylor. Taylor Nicole Rogers Thanks, Marc....
...The S&P 500 rose more than 1 per cent on Friday to its highest level in nine months on growing hopes for a debt ceiling deal....
...Additional reporting by Taylor Nicole Rogers and Colby Smith in New York...
...So far this week, the S&P 500 is off 2 per cent. More Federal Reserve officials are putting zero rate cuts in 2024 on the table....
...The S&P 500, for reference, has tripled in that time....
...smoothly translated by Lola Rogers for this English edition....
...S&P, the rating agency, has negative outlooks for two-thirds of the UK water companies it rates — indicating the possibility of downgrades as the result of weaker financial resilience....
...Group Q1 trading update, Pandora Q1, Porsche Q1, Qualcomm Q2, Reach trading update and AGM, Securitas Q1, Stellantis Q1, Wickes Group Q1 trading update, Yum Brands Q1 Thursday Cressida Hogg succeeds Sir Roger...
...Most large consumer packaged goods groups, including P&G, are still operating on tighter margins than they were before the pandemic....
...Pepsi reports Thursday, and a pack of big banks follow on Friday. Expectations are that S&P 500 second-quarter earnings fell 7 per cent from a year ago....
...The S&P 500 ESG index aims to carve out a portion of the familiar S&P 500 that represents best of breed in the same underlying industries. ExxonMobil scored higher than its Big Oil competitors....
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