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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The Dow Jones STOXX Global Select Dividend 100 Index tracks the high-dividend-yielding companies in the Dow Jones STOXX Global 1800 Index that includes the Americas,Europe and Asia-Pacific. The 100 components in the index contains 40 stocks for the Americas and 30 each for Europe and Asia-Pacific. The Dow Jones STOXX Global Select Dividend 100 Index …
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The October issue of Global Finance magazine featured The World’s Top Ten Safest Banks for 2008. The Banks were selected based on: A comparison of the long-term credit ratings (issued by S&P, Moody’s and Fitch’s) Total assets of the 300 largest banks in the world. The World’s Top Ten Safest Banks 2008: [TABLE=117] Of the …
Yesterday November 7,2008 Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc(RBS) completed a reverse split in the ratio of 20:1 of its ADR shares traded in New York. This reverse split was first announced on Oct 30,2008 (Source: RBS Investor Relations Site): Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC- RBS Ratio Change for ADR Holders “To maintain an …
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