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...“Folks are having to get a lot more competitive with sign on and retention bonuses,” says Shawn Cole, president of search firm Cowen Partners. “A couple of years ago everybody wanted stock options....
...“We wholeheartedly believe that our strike squeezed every last dime out of General Motors,” Shawn Fain, UAW president, said in a video released late on Monday....
...The key conceit is that Bardem’s shadowy huckster Hector P Valenti has tried to turn Lyle into a singing sensation via a TV talent show, but the shy semiaquatic creature gets terrible stage fright and can...
...Shawn Reynolds, portfolio manager for the natural resources equity strategies team at VanEck, agreed. “I think this story has not been entirely told,” Reynolds said....
...Investors are no longer “buying with both hands”, said Shawn Cruz, head trading strategist at TD Ameritrade....
...The great hedge fund debate Back in 2008 Warren Buffett made a $1m bet that the S&P 500 index would outperform a basket of hedge funds over the course of a decade....
...In October BlackRock joined an investor rebellion at P&G over the consumer goods group’s wood pulp and palm oil supply chain, which extends into Indonesia....
...Weil, Gotshal has hired Shawn Cooley as a partner in its corporate department....
...Shawn Kravetz, founder and president of Esplanade Capital, which specialises in retail and leisure stocks, said if the firm were to short retailers, “we would short the highly marginal department stores...
...Meanwhile, the US stock market rose 0.8 per cent this week, with the S&P 500 index of large companies closing above 3,000 for the first time ever on Friday....
...The S&P 500 ended up 0.9 per cent at 2,846.07, less than 1 per cent below the high reached in January....
...But the S&P 500 closed 0.9 per cent lower after White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said the latest Trump administration policy did not represent a softer stance on China Under the existing system...
...The S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.7 per cent while the Kospi Composite added 0.9 per cent and the Hang Seng edged up 0.1 per cent, after the S&P ended the US session down 0.4 per cent, pulling off the day’s lows....
...However, the worst-hit sector on Friday was energy, with the S&P 500 energy index tumbling 2.1 per cent as oil prices slid lower....
...By mid-afternoon, the S&P 500 was down as much as 2 per cent....
...Japan’s Topix index fell 0.28 per cent in early morning trading, while South Korea’s Kospi was off by 0.29 per cent and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 by 0.23 per cent....
...Stock prices and the dollar were unsettled as markets considered the implications, with the S&P 500 down 0.9 per cent in opening Wall Street trade on Wednesday....
...The S&P 500 opened up 0.5 per cent, adding to an overall gain of more than 1 per cent over the previous session....
...The S&P 500 index ended the day down 2.2 per cent — taking the overall loss since its January high to near the 10 per cent mark that signifies a correction — while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq...
...The S&P 500 dropped as much as 1 per cent in morning trading before ending the day down 0.1 per cent....
...US equities suffered their biggest falls since February 8, with the benchmark S&P 500 dropping 2.5 per cent and slipping into the red for the year....
...While global stocks remained weak on Friday, the US S&P 500 index clawed its way back from an initial tumble to end the day up 0.5 per cent, thanks to a rally in more defensive sectors like healthcare, telecoms...
...At the close of trading in New York, the S&P 500 had fallen 1.3 per cent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 1.7 per cent....
...The S&P 500 was up 0.8 per cent at lunchtime in New York, partly on the back of strong tech sector earnings....
...But this summary from Shawn Donnan is I think accurate, and shows that we can expect plenty of volatility in the months that come: The move, which one EU official dubbed “a firm agreement to talk about...
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