One industry that has been riding on the back of the rising oil prices is the Oil&Gas; equipment and service industry.Companies in this sector provide equipments, technology, management consulting, equipment, maintenance etc. to the oil companies. Big oil companies like Shell,BP,Total etc. usually contract out all the infrastructure and operations related work to contractors like …
We had written an article titled “Invest (some) in International Real Estate !!!!” back in December, 2007. This post is a sequel to that. With the collapse of the housing market in the US,UK and to some extent other European countries it sounds weird to talk about real estate investment.But some real estate stil needs …
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The title of the post represents three chemical ADRs from Europe. In volatile and crazy times like this chemical stocks may offer an investor the peaceful shelter they are looking for. Chemicals form an integral part of our everyday life. They are found in pretty much everything nowadays – from card boards, food boxes like …
The following utilities are down YTD over 20%.Some of them are very good companies based on fundamentals and long-term prospects. Check them out: 1. Company – Veolia Environnement Ticker – VE Yield – 1.99% YTD Change: – 21.64% 2. Company – Korea Electric Power Ticker – KEP Yield – 3.25% YTD Change: – 21.73% 3. …
In this post lets review the 5 year performance of the top railroad stocks of Canada and the US.Our primary goal here is to analyze which company did the best in terms of stock returns. We will also see if the two Canadian railroads offered higher returns than their US peers or vice versa. There …
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