e wrote an article on how to analyze a bank on July 3,2008. In that post, the three factors discussed were: 1. Reserves for Loan Losses 2. Non Performing Loans 3. Capital Levels In addition to the above factors there are a few other ways to measure the performance of a bank. In this post …
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There are two ways to invest in Portugal. One can pickup a few Portugese ADRs or invest thru the recently launched NETS ETF for Portugal called “NETS PSI 20 Index Fund (Portugal)”. a.Stocks: 1.Company: Energias de Portugal Ticker: EDPFY Country: Portugal Yield: 3.59% EDPFY is an electric utility in Portugal. It has interests in natural …
Though Singapore is tiny city-state it has many banks.There are over 100 foreign banks since Singapore is becoming an offshare tax haven in recent years. Locally there are local large commerical banking companies. DBS and UOB trade in the pink sheets market in USA. The 3 banks are as follows: 1.DBS Bank Limited (DBSDY) Market …
The following are the top banks in South Korea.If a bank is listed in USA as an ADR the ticker is in brackets. The market cap is based on the ADR price as of Oct 24,2008. 1. Kookmin Bank (KB) Market Cap (as of Oct 24,2008):$8.5B 2.Nonghyup Bank 3.Shinhan Financial Group (SHG) Market Cap (as …
Here are the world’s 20 largest banks as of September 15,2008. Bank of America’s planned takeover of Merrill Lynch of USA would take it from the world’s fourth to second-largest bank, after the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). The following are The Top 20 Banks ranked in ascending order, based on their market …