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The Standard and Poor's 100, or simply the S&P 100, is a stock market index of United States stocks maintained by Standard & Poor's.. The S&P 100 is a subset of the S&P 500 and the S&P 1500, and holds stocks that tend to be the largest and most established companies in the S&P 500. [1]
Palazzo ENI, Rome, built 1959–1962. [9] Photo by Paolo Monti, 1967. Eni was founded in 1953 by an existing company, Agip, which was created in 1926 with the aim to explore for oilfields, and acquire and commercialize oil and derivatives.
Carl Celian Icahn (/ ˈ aɪ k ɑː n /; born February 16, 1936) is an American businessman and investor.He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a public company and diversified conglomerate holding company based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was a patriarch of the Kennedy family, which included President John F. Kennedy, attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime senator Ted Kennedy.
The Standard and Poor's 500, or simply the S&P 500, [5] is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. It is one of the most commonly followed equity indices and includes approximately 80% of the total market capitalization of U.S. public companies, with an ...
Foreign investors participated, attracted by New Zealand's relatively high interest rates. From late 1984 until Black Monday, commercial property prices and commercial construction rose sharply, while share prices in the stock market tripled. [73] New Zealand's stock market fell nearly 15 percent on the first day. [75]
The Maldives, [d] officially the Republic of Maldives, [e] and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.
However, by 1984 the mining operation was causing heavy losses [22] and the oil and gas industry Fluor served was in a worldwide recession [23] due to declining oil prices. [19] [24] From 1981 to 1984, Fluor's backlog went from $16 billion to $4 billion. [19] In 1985 it reported $633 million in losses. [25]