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...Canada’s main stock index, the S&P/TSX Composite, has advanced 31 per cent since 2019, compared with a 74 per cent gain for the S&P 500....
...Canada’s main stock index, the S&P/TSX Composite, has advanced 31 per cent in the last five years, compared to a 74 per cent gain for the S&P 500....
...Berkshire bulls might object that the company has delivered slightly better performance than the S&P since 2019: 15.7 per cent annually to the S&P’s 14.1....
...The S&P 500 isn’t at such extremes today....
...There they can remain until they are so large they qualify for the S&P 500, or are flipped to another PE fund or rival company....
...But, as S&P puts it when explaining why U.S....
...And while corporates have been the dominant buyers of equities over the past year, there’s $6tn of dry powder sitting in money market funds that could be dislodged by lower interest rates: The S&P 500’s...
...The S&P 500 as a whole has a weighted average P/E of 26, reflecting the higher valuations of larger companies in the index....
...The company is in a reputational crisis. This C-suite shake-up should be welcomed....
...S&P Global Ratings said in a report on Thursday that triple C borrowers would “contend with weak cash flow and elevated interest expenses this year”, while “defaults in 2024 [would] largely come from consumer-facing...
...We’ll just note that S&P currently rates Paramount Global one notch above junk with a stable outlook....
...That performance has continued into this year: the S&P 500 index of leading shares hit an all-time high on Friday, driven by strong gains for the largest technology companies....
...SRT transactions have picked up, more than doubling globally to €200bn in the two years to 2022, according to data from S&P Global....
...S&P Global, the rating agency, dropped coverage of 64 municipal bond issuers earlier this year because they failed to file audited financial statements on time....
...S&P rates EDF as BBB compared with AA for French government bonds....
...Looks like S&P Ratings doesn’t find “attestations” especially convincing, either....
...Yet shares of insurers such as Allstate, Progressive and AIG are down between 3 per cent and 22 per cent this year, while the S&P 500 has climbed 16 per cent....
...S&P this month downgraded Thames Water’s top-ranked class A debt to BBB-, the bottom rung of investment-grade, just one notch above junk....
...First, they tried McKinsey’s statistical approach on S&P 500 companies, and found no significant relationship. Second, they fault McKinsey’s methodology....
...As much as 45 per cent of the financial companies in the S&P 500 have no women among their “named executive officers”, those C-suite members important enough to have their pay officially disclosed, according...
...That said, I assert that this chart is actually quite interesting: That is the total return of the S&P 500 sectors since this current rally began in October 2022....
...The S&P 500 is not yet quite as expensive as it was in the zero-rate, fiscal bonanza, everyone-has-loads-of-cash glory days of 2021. But it is getting closer....
...The S&P 500 is within a per cent or two of taking out the all-time high it set in late 2021. Most bond funds are likely to end the year with gains, too....
...The perimeter of the financial junkyard is defined by a rating of BB+ from Fitch and S&P, and Ba1 from Moody’s....
...According to the BoardEx data, 59 per cent of FTSE 350 companies have an HR officer in their senior leadership team, up from 42 per cent in 2018, while in the S&P 500 77 per cent of companies do, up from...
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