One of the few sectors that are worth looking into during this bear market is the utility sector.This is because just like food, utilities are a necessity even during a bear market. While its possible that people might use less energy these days, still most will use the normal energy needs on a day-to-day basis. …
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I do not believe that the global diversification strategy is dead for some of the reasons discussed at the end of this article. However this year it hasn’t helped investors.Many foreign markets have fallen more than the US markets. In the US, the S&P 500 Index is down 40.53% year-to-date(YTD) as of November 14,2008.Within the …
Many foreign stocks that trade as ADRs in the US have fallen heavily in-line with their home country’s market performance. In order to identify the ADRs that are down more than 80% year-to-date I ran the screener and ended up with the 38 stocks listed below. Foreign ADR Stocks Down > 80% [TABLE=121] Analysis: 1.The …
Last month Platts(A Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies) released the “Platts’ 2008 Top 250 Global Energy Companies” list.In this post lets look at the top 10 companies from this list. The rankings are based on the following four key metrics: Asset Revenues Profits Return on Invested Capital The list comprised of companies in nine subcategories …
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