Hints and tips:
...We didn’t listen to them and we never let up.”...
...“We are carefully balancing shareholder returns with the need to ensure appropriate rewards to employees,” said Jupiter’s chief financial officer Wayne Mepham....
...Leah P Hollis, a senior research associate at Rutgers University, focusing on workplace bullying, is similarly sceptical of paper promises....
...Retailers were the biggest drivers of a broad market rout on Wednesday that pushed the S&P 500 stock index to its worst one-day fall in almost two years....
...And didn’t really think much about it. To be honest with you, I wasn’t a real Warhol person....
...That sounds fine — until you look at the S&P 500 index, which is up 140 per cent....
...In April, S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Detroit debt to negative — making it potentially more difficult and expensive for the city to borrow — on pandemic concerns....
...“IBM is the epitome of old tech, and hasn’t done well lately,” he points out. “Some people have just navigated the environment better or worse than others.”...
...The pan-European equity benchmark has still not managed to surpass its 2000 highs, while the S&P 500 has doubled over that period. But some analysts and investors think change may be afoot....
...RBC Capital Markets isn’t too worried about those....
...But history isn’t used to the kind of earnings growth we’re seeing,” says Wayne Wicker, chief investment officer of ICMA-RC, a pension plan manager....
...S&P highlighted a few key points: Covenant-lite loans (ie obligations that don’t have the typical financial covenants that can protect investors) now account for more than three-quarters of global deals...
...Every morning, Wayne Wicker goes to the gym and watches CNBC to catch up on the financial news. Lately, one particular theme dominates the broadcasting agenda....
...“Tech tends to lead the market up, but also down, and it wouldn’t be surprising if we start seeing some weakness.”...
...“A lot of incidental consumption doesn’t happen online. Most people don’t wander the digital aisles,” he says....
...The Vix Index, which tracks the volatility of the S&P 500, touched a high of 28.14, the highest first quarter reading in five years....
...Shouldn’t portfolio managers be out there shaking up their sector allocations, rather than sitting in silence in the S&P 500? Yes, says Andreas Brugger, portfolio manager at Bank Julius Baer....
...Here is P Diddy explaining why it’s all about pieces of paper with a picture of Benjamin Franklin on them: Dr Dre (Andre Young) ($550m) The chief executive and founder of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats...
...“Nike didn’t get football for a long time and worried about it,” said Mr Crow....
...“Strong CEO candidates don’t grow on trees, and we can imagine companies having the intent of splitting the roles, then finding candidates who say ‘I will do this only if I get both’.”...
...“They’re downplaying [their prospects] because they don’t want analysts pushing their numbers up yet,” said one analyst....
...~ Wayne Viegas 3:13pm Brian: Thanks for your interest in McKinsey!...
...“We were a bit shocked by the fact that things weren’t being done and everything was messy and disorganised,” he says....
...But the president assured that the deficit-reduction “won’t be a drag on a fragile economy”....
...As told in an excellent new book* on clearing by my former colleague Peter Norman, the chief executive of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Bill Brodsky, and Wayne Luthringshausen, chief executive of the...
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