You know a trend is going mainstream when it takes hold among the biggest companies in the country. You can add blogging to the list, as a full 10% of the Fortune 500 now maintain some number of blogs about their companies and products. This insight comes...
Jonathan O'Shaughnessy submits: The leading story a few days ago on CNNMoney was Fortune's Global 500; its annual compilation of the top 500 companies in the world. As always, the report categorizes companies with a high amount of granularity: the report lets visitors analyze companies by location, fastest growing, most...
Brett Steenbarger submits: I recently noted the stock sector rotation that had dramatically shifted patterns of performance in the market. Tracking these themes has been key to trading the market so far this week.Above we see percent changes in the S&P 500 Index SPY; the financial sector within the...
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Earlier in the week we highlighted a chart of the intraday performance of oil and the S&P 500 last week, which showed how each up or down move in oil was met with an opposite move in the S&P 500.  Looking at the...
With the benchmark S&P 500 index tilting toward growth stocks, planners seek to keep their balance. The S&P 500 index, like major stock market indexes, is capitalization-weighted. Indexing strategies are meant to provide inexpensive exposure to a particular asset class, but money going into the S&P 500 might be seen...
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Below we provide charts of the historical dividend yield of the S&P 500. The S&P 500 is currently yielding the most it has since June 1995 at 2.49%. After declining for about 20 years from the early 80s to the late 90s, the...
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: We were recently doing some IPO analysis and decided to see how Bloomberg's IPO index has done versus the broader market over the last year and a half.  Below we highlight the performance of the Bloomberg US IPO index versus the S&P 500...
This paper describes the first application of the OptiJect 500 Fuel Management System FMS, which combines 10 years experience with electronic injection for gas engines with an increase in fuel supply pressure from 40 to 500 psi. Like the very first electronic injection application, this one is on a TLA-6....
It is well known that some relationship between systematic risk and credit risk prevails in financial markets. In this study, S&P 500 stock index return is our market risk proxy whereas credit spreads represent our credit risk proxy as a function of maturity, rating and economic sector. The article addresses...
Modern Portfolio theory was virtually unknown, the benefits of small and value were not appreciated, and basic risk control techniques were little understood. However, today, use of the S&P 500, as a standard benchmark is unfortunate, because as a comprehensive investment policy, the S&P 500 is a sub-optimal. The S&P...
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: With oil up 35% year to date, one would think that the biggest energy company in the world, XOM, would be up on the year as well.  As shown below, however, Exxon is now even underperforming the S&P 500 in 2008, down 15.32%....
The analysis of pension and OPEB disclosures for every company in the S&P 500 revealed valuable information regarding the relative health of these plans, their impact on the overall S&P 500, and emerging trends. This report includes two detailed appendices that outline pension and OPEB data for all S&P 500...
I run my fundamental stock screener, searching for stocks with the highest dividend yield. The report lists only companies included in the S&P 500 index. Not surprisingly, aside from one GM GM, there are only financials and banks in the top ten. Financials had the highest yield, compared to other...
IndexUniverse submits: By Heather Bell The economy may be going through a rocky period but the S&P 500 was sitting pretty in terms of indexed assets at the end of 2007. Standard & Poor's just released its annual report on assets tied to its indexes, and the numbers are...
The 2001 Deloitte & Touche Technology CEO Survey is a broad-ranging poll of the top executives of companies that made the 2000 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500. The results from the more than 200 CEOs who responded identify the major issues affecting North American companies, including challenges to growth,...
Based on Birinyi Associates' sector data, which dates back to 1962, the S&P 500 financial sector has had its best six day move ever.  The move puts the sector in the middle of its trading range, at the 50-day moving average. click to enlarge by TickerSense
John D. Frankola submits: The S&P 500 Index—the broadest U.S. benchmark—lost 2.7% in the second quarter of 2008.   It was the third consecutive quarter of negative performance for the S&P 500.  After attempting to stage a recovery in April and May, the S&P 500 fell 8.6% in June.  This...
Profit weighted indexes are a new way of looking at markets. This new approach uses profit instead of market capitalization as its principal weighting tool, has a clear methodology and, on back testing, produces consistently superior returns. Moreover, this superior performance has been generated with lower volatility than comparable market...
Protiviti provided a global Fortune 500 company with the flexible staffing arrangements under a Master Services Agreement. It also provided an industry and subject matter expertise and a responsive, high quality client service. This helped the company in reducing the unclaimed property exposure within their rental car division by $1...
You can restrict the maximum number of characters that users can enter in a textbox control on a data access page or a form. A data access page is a Web page designed for viewing and working with data from the Internet or an intranet. Its data is typically stored...
