BlackRock (BLK.N) is attempting to implement true shareholder democracy but only for a select few. On Thursday, the world’s largest fund manager announced that it will offer some of its most important clients more power over how the stocks backing their index-fund assets are voted at company meetings. Given Larry Fink’s strong stance on topics …
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Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson alerted just over two weeks ago that a 20% drop in US stocks was a realistic prospect. Since then, the S&P 500 has remained near all-time highs despite bouts of volatility. Skeptics like Wilson can now find a more sympathetic audience as the bond selloff accelerates and stocks drop in Wednesday …
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This is clearly a very bad time for the FTSE100 index as it closed at 6,997 after 10 consecutive trading sessions above the 7,000 mark. This decline is considered as the sharpest ever decline since August 19. Notably, the time is also not good for the FTSE250 index, as it fell, even more, by 1.4% …
Some argue that the greatest approach to think about risk as an investor is to think about volatility rather than debt, however, Warren Buffett famously stated, “Volatility is far from equivalent with risk.” We usually prefer to look at a company’s debt utilisation when determining how dangerous it is, because debt overflow can lead to …
Fears of increased inflation weighed on London’s blue-chip stocks on Wednesday, although grocery chain Tesco topped the index thanks to a positive yearly outlook and good first-half results. Diageo (DGE.L), Unilever (ULVR.L), and Astrazeneca (AZN.L) were among the major drags on the FTSE 100 index (.FTSE), which fell 1.5 percent to its lowest level since …
