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...Wall Street’s S&P 500 is up 18 per cent in 2023, while European and Japanese stocks have also racked up strong gains....
...We’ve divided the issuers up by their primary exchange and overlaid short-interest data from S&P Global, accurate to February 23....
...Over the past 20 years, Wigdor has secured more than $1.5bn in compensation for clients, including some who were assaulted by Harvey Weinstein....
...Cruise lines Royal Caribbean and Carnival are two of the 10 most heavily shorted companies in the S&P 500 but have confounded short sellers’ expectations by more than doubling in value so far this year....
...Weinstein tweeted earlier this month: That’s true for every tail fund — there’s nothing about Universa’s strategy that makes this possible....
...The value of short positions against Argentine bonds lent by international custodian banks is currently $41mn, a sharp increase from $25mn ahead the mid-August vote, according to data from S&P Global Market...
...Donald, one of the few black chief executives of a S&P 500 company, has led the world’s largest cruise company for nine years....
...In 2018 Marshall’s “Past Times”, black figures picnicking and boating in reference to Monet’s “Déjeuner sur l’herbe” and river idylls, sold to rapper P Diddy for $21mn....
...the total return of the S&P 500....
...Futures contracts tracking Wall Street’s S&P 500 fell 0.5 per cent ahead of the New York open....
...Boaz Weinstein, the founder of Saba Capital credited with spotting the “London whale” a decade ago, recently told the FT that global stocks could be heading for a Japan-style bear market lasting decades...
...BDO is one of only two accounting firms outside the Big Four of EY, PwC, KPMG and Deloitte that audits companies in the S&P 500....
...Economic data S&P Global is scheduled to release its business survey, which is likely to report flash manufacturing PMI slumped to 52.0 in July from a reading of 52.7 in June....
...Already, the bounce is pronounced — the S&P 500 benchmark index of US blue-chip stocks has climbed by as much as 9 per cent since its low point on May 20....
...The S&P 500 index of blue-chip US stocks has dropped more than 2 per cent in a day a grand total of five times all year, despite all the bursts of Covid-19 drama....
...Five years ago, shortly after film producer Harvey Weinstein was first exposed as a sexual abuser, the decade-old #MeToo movement was revived....
...“The market does not have full conviction yet, or we would have higher long-term yields,” Mr Riley said....
...The S&P deal will hand Mr Uggla $46m, according to a regulatory filing, on top of his 0.3 per cent stake in IHS Markit, now worth $120m....
...They illustrated their interdisciplinary arguments with a suitably eclectic group of artists: Cindy Sherman, Bridget Riley, François Morellet, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Fiona Pardington and Renoir....
...“Earnings are dreadful, but we know that,” said Mr Riley at BlueBay. Still, deep concerns persist....
...NextEra Energy, a Florida-based utility and power producer, had a market capitalisation of $138.6bn in intraday trading on Friday, having gained more than two-thirds in the past two years, according to S&P...
...Wall Street’s S&P 500 is down 16 per cent so far this year....
...David Riley at BlueBay Asset Management takes a circumspect approach and says: “Investors are in danger of extrapolating a bounce in the economy from the unprecedented declines in activity in the second...
...“It’s interesting that they’ve chosen to do this at the height of the market,” said Susan Anderson, US retail analyst at B Riley FBR in Virginia....
...Investors also drew comfort from S&P’s decision not to downgrade Italy on Friday, holding its rating two notches above junk status....
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