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...It merits inclusion in the S&P 500 index, which makes it an obligatory investment for passive funds. Smaller local peer Forrester Research points to a different outcome....
...This complexity is highlighted by the S&P 500’s profitability screen....
...Stephan Feldgoise, co-head of global M&A at Goldman Sachs, said several deals were also spurred by companies’ desire to diversify their portfolios....
...Stephan Leithner, a member of the executive board of Deutsche Börse, also downplayed any concerns over the German group’s acquisition of ISS, which along with Glass Lewis is the dominant shareholder advisory...
...“Size is a factor that we would say is potentially not present any more,” said Stephan Kessler, head of quantitative strategies at Morgan Stanley....
...The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 stock index has risen 28 per cent since the turn of the year, compared with a 4 per cent rise in the benchmark S&P 500....
...Stephan Engels, chief financial officer, declined to rule out a net loss in the fourth quarter. Analysts on average expect net profit of €187m, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence....
...Invesco, the asset manager where Mr Woodford built his reputation, is the second-largest investor with a 14 per cent stake, according to S&P Capital IQ....
...The International Monetary Fund’s Stephan Danninger reckons that, as long as the US economy continues to add just 100,000 jobs a month — and it has averaged 162,000 this year — then average salaries will...
...Intraday US index futures suggest the S&P 500 will shed 12 points to 2,332, when trading gets under way later in New York....
...C Andrew Roberts Chief Executive, Innovation Group Inga Beale Chief Executive, Lloyd’s of London Stephan Coward President of Technical Risk, Navigators Richard Murphy Chief Executive, Renaissance...
...Alex Matturri is chief executive of S&P Dow Jones Indices, which is rumoured to be bidding for Barclays’ bond index unit....
...It’s hardly Mr Shakespeare’s fault that the quest for truth in accounting has effectively drained all meaning from the P&L account....
...Success has a price, however, and a full-year 2013 price/earnings ratio of 15.7 means YouGov no longer looks cheap, especially compared with French rival Ipsos, on a forward p/e of 11....
...Shares in YouGov, which have risen by one-third over the past 12 months, on Monday were flat at 67¾p....
...As a result, P&G was fined €211.2m, while Unilever was fined €104m....
...YouGov’s shares closed unchanged at 50¾p....
...YouGov’s shares closed ½p higher at 37p....
...“Since mid-May, [ETF] demand has increased and total holdings for the nine largest ETFs were close to 54m ounces,” says Stephan Mueller, manager of the Julius Baer Physical Gold Fund....
...Dowling Michiel P. Lap Julian Salisbury Steve Windsor L. Brooks Entwistle Brian J. Lee Paul D. Scialla Martin Wiwen-Nilsson Stephan J. Feldgoise David A. Lehman Peter E. Scialla Denise A....
...Stephan Wrobel, chief executive of Diapason, says: “We wanted something that was broad, diversified, rebalanced and international.”...
...It took the S&P 500 seven years to get back to its old high and about five years to double off of its lows....
...P remium car companies often like to talk about making every customer count. When Rolls-Royce Motors does so, it is difficult to doubt its sincerity....
...Consider consensusview.com’s home page claim, “Do you get the S&P right 58% of the time? Our members do!”...
..."On fundamentals alone, you could argue that the bonds are cheap now," said Stephan Michel, credit analyst at Barclays Capital....
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