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What We’ve Learned Tracking the 100 Connected Economy Leaders Since 2022
What We’ve Learned Tracking the 100 Connected Economy Leaders Since 2022
July 15, 2024  |  Connected Economy

The Connected Economy (CE) 100 Stock Index was launched in February 2022. It was introduced as an equity index of 100 publicly traded companies across 11...

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Student Loan Stocks Drop Ahead of Restart of Payments
Student Loan Stocks Drop Ahead of Restart of Payments
October 05, 2023  |  Consumer Finance

Stocks of companies related to student loans have experienced a drop in value ahead of the restart of student loan payments after a three-year pause...

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First-Quarter Earnings Calls Show Shift From Growth to Efficiency
First-Quarter Earnings Calls Show Shift From Growth to Efficiency
May 01, 2023  |  Earnings

A shift from growth to efficiency is showing up in earnings calls across industries. With half of the S&P 500 having held calls for last...

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What Macro Challenges? S&P 500 Firms Trounce First Quarter Estimates
What Macro Challenges? S&P 500 Firms Trounce First Quarter Estimates
April 17, 2023  |  Earnings

Big banks are kicking off earning season in style. This despite a first quarter 2023 that was anything but sedate, with the collapses of Silicon...

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Analysts Expect 6.8% Decline in First-Quarter Earnings
Analysts Expect 6.8% Decline in First-Quarter Earnings
April 10, 2023  |  Earnings

Analysts expect S&P 500 companies to report a year-over-year 6.8% decline in first-quarter earnings. If those expectations turn out to be correct, that would be...

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S&P Dow Jones Strips Russian Stocks From Indexes
S&P Dow Jones Strips Russian Stocks From Indexes
March 06, 2022  |  Markets

S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Friday (March 4) that it will remove stocks listed or domiciled in Russia from its benchmarks because of the country’s...

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Payments Stocks Plummet While Retail Remains A Bright Spot
Payments Stocks Plummet While Retail Remains A Bright Spot
March 09, 2020  |  Stock Index

Bloodbath. Buying opportunity. Call it what you will, but Monday’s rout left pretty much no one unscathed. The headline numbers show a 7.6 percent drop for the...

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US Businesses Tap The Brakes On Spending
US Businesses Tap The Brakes On Spending
November 24, 2019  |  Economy

Economic uncertainty and fear of the unknown have prompted big businesses to pull the plug on investments and reduce spending, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)...

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Small US Bank Shares Increase Post-Dodd-Frank
Small US Bank Shares Increase Post-Dodd-Frank
June 12, 2018  |  Banking

Small banks are benefiting from the rollback of Dodd-Frank, with the Russell 2000 bank index outperforming the S&P 500 banks by about 10 percentage points...

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