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...The stellar performance of a handful of tech names have helped the S&P outperform European benchmarks, not just in the past year but the past decade....
...The year-to-date performance was just too stellar to remain that way,” he added....
...It has had a decent recovery — the bloc’s gross value added rose 3.9 per cent in the four years to the third quarter of 2023 — but this is left in the dust by the US’s stellar rebound....
...In practice, the recovery does not seem to be registering. edward.luce@ft.com...
...“The recovery is nowhere near complete,” Larsen said, pointing to the weak supply side of the economy, with poor productivity growth and sluggish investment....
...Another stellar US jobs report, following last week’s higher than expected inflation figures, has further damped down expectations of early interest rate cuts in the world’s largest economy....
...It’s no coincidence that the S&P 500 is also having a stellar run....
...Revolut has said 2023 was another stellar year for growth, with revenue up 75 per cent to around $2bn....
...Fast Retailing, Asia’s largest clothing retailer and owner of the Uniqlo fashion brand, said it expects annual operating profits to rise to a record on the back of a stellar post-Covid recovery in China....
...The owners of Japan’s biggest casual clothing brands Uniqlo and Muji have posted a surge in quarterly profits on the back of a stellar post-pandemic recovery in China sales....
...This looks like good value if the margin recovery plan works out, but that remains to be seen....
...But those new investors did not enjoy stellar returns; the fund lost 23 per cent in 2021 and 67 per cent in 2022....
...OpenAI had previously enjoyed a stellar 2023, reaching a valuation of more than $80bn and launching the latest version of its powerful chatbot ChatGPT....
...Shares in Zalando have staged a recovery over the past six months to hit about €40, but still trade well below the peak of €104.65 reached in 2021....
...Between April and December 2020 the Invesco Solar ETF (TAN) jumped 305 per cent, according to Morningstar data, perhaps the most explosive example of thematic funds’ ability to exhibit stellar gains when...
...Grew played a central role in Man’s turnround and recovery following its acquisition of GLG Partners for $1.6bn in 2010....
...The FT weekend magazine is always great; last weekend was stellar....
...On Wednesday, Washington announced that from January 5, air passengers arriving from China must show a negative Covid-19 test or proof of recovery from a previous infection....
...If the aim is to avoid inflation settling at a moderately higher level, we need to be told why that is worse than giving up on a stellar jobs market....
...Krizia Li, founder of luxury Asian art ecommerce platform Vermillion, says she has seen a stellar recovery in the first quarter of this year, driven by savvy millennials and Gen-Z’ers....
...Analysts at Peel Hunt said on the back of these results that “Superdry’s recovery is more tangible and profitable, on a valuation that appears to have given up”....
...Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the coronavirus pandemic recovery have fuelled Exxon’s rally....
...Give a hand to my colleagues Claire Jones and Chris Cook who kept the newsletter going with a series of stellar pieces. If you were away too, do look them up now....
...While ARKK has a stellar long-term record, the average investor in the ETF is now under water because many of its gains came when it had a much smaller asset base....
...However, Amundi, one of Europe’s largest asset managers, estimates that the average investor in the ETF is now underwater because while ARKK’s long-term record of average annual gains is stellar, many of...
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