With the first quarter over for this year, its time to take a look at the performance of bank ADRs. The following 6 six ADRs are in positive territory as of April 1, 2009:1. Woori Finance – WF Year-To-Date (YTD) Change:17.38% 2.Credit Suisse –CS YTD Change:14.40% 3. Westpack banking – WBK YTD Change:14.11% 4.Banco de …
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The Asset magazine of Hong Kong conducted an interview with Professor Nouriel Roubini of NYU Stern School of Business. In this video, Roubini shares his views on the impact of the global crisis on Asia. Video Image (Clicking on the image will load the source article in a new window): To Play the video directly …
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One of the ways that some investors use to identify potential investment opportunities is to analyze the portfolios of many mutual funds and pick the companies that exist across many funds. This strategy basically confirms the most popular stocks among the various fund managers.Retail investors try to simply follow the fund managers’ ideas by investing …
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Commodity prices are often a correlation, but investors now increasingly chase potential acquisition targets. A selection of 100 of the world’s best performing mining stocks shows an aggregate value of USD 33bn, and a weighted average gain of 367% over the past six months, vastly outperforming any other known grouping of equities. There are multiple …
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1. China is well placed to continue its strong development as the global crisis eases, helped in part by using its vast surpluses in massive labor-retraining programs. Low wages paid to trainees have the added benefit of maintaining the country’s cost advantages.China prepares for next surge 2. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner claims he is …
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