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...Futures contracts tracking Wall Street’s S&P 500 fell 0.5 per cent ahead of the New York open....
...One scoop to start: SoftBank has followed Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala in backing a new $2.5bn private equity fund set up by former US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin...
...Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V Le Quesne, Salisbury; Sue Topham, Newark; Anthony Evans, Hove Polymath 1,009: AC Lambirth, Cyprus Crossword 16,087: Judge...
...Although hedge funds last year managed to beat the S&P 500 index for the first time in a decade, investors’ appetite for long-only funds is yet to be tested by a bear market....
...It is premature to judge the enduring impact of the corporate tax cut on investment, but early evidence is decidedly mixed....
...This is an unscientific way to judge sentiment. However, the conversations suggest that a subtle shift in psychology is under way....
...“[P]ractices on performance fees are not always consistent,” he said. “In particular, some performance-fee models are permitted in one member state but not in another.”...
...For now, investors are likely to play a waiting game before they can properly judge what the healthcare imbroglio means for those parts of the Trump agenda they covet most....
...A recent series of experiments showed that competition judges consciously value sound as central to their decision....
...STEVEN DENNING Chairman, General Atlantic LLC Steven Denning joined General Atlantic in 1980. Prior to GA, Mr. Denning was with McKinsey & Company....
...You can judge a trapper by his pelts, and Carl’s got a lot of pelts.”...
...Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes to put on hold a flurry of lawsuits claiming the Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing violates the state constitution.”...
...Analysts said it was still too early to judge the impact of the BoJ easing....
...“Our focus is always on the result,” said Steven Hess, the lead analyst at Moody’s....
...An external Goldman lawyer, Steven Peikin, is also on the witness list as is banking analyst Meredith Whitney, who runs her own research firm....
...This year our 16 tasters included six Masters of Wine, my fellow wine writers Neal Martin and Steven Spurrier, and experienced buyers of Bordeaux from many of Britain’s top wine merchants and wine traders...
...Steven Spielberg clearly thinks so....
...We tend to concentrate on their P&Ls and forward projections. So it’s all about profits for you. I’m sorry, but what kind of way is that to judge a business? robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
...Steven Miller, managing director at S&P LCD, which tracks leveraged finance, lists the possibilities: a geo-political event; a sovereign default in Europe; a large municipal default in the US; a spike in...
...The judges cited the story, which appeared in the FT’s Weekend Magazine, as an example of “rigorous and balanced” journalism on “one of the biggest stories of the year”....
...“There is a lot less confidence that issuers are going to make it through,” says Steven Miller, managing director at S&P Leveraged Commentary & Data....
...Palmisano, the judges and the award ceremony are available on request....
...M&S shares, trading at 318p before last week’s warning, closed 14½p higher at 231½p....
...For further information please contact: UK: Katrina Power/Steven Williams, Midas PR T: +44 (0) 207 584 7474 / +44 (0)79639 62538 E: katrina.power@midaspr.co.uk Lizzie Allen, Financial Times T: +44 (...
...“There is a lot less confidence that issuers are going to make it,” says Steven Miller, managing director at S&P’s Leveraged Commentary & Data, a debt commentary and information service....
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