Asians are generally known to save a higher portion of their income.Many of the banks in Asia are very conservatively run profitable businesses.For example,the banks are not permitted to have high leverage ratios and sub-prime mortgages are unknown. However due to globalization, most of the Asian banks suffered as well during the in this credit …
1.THE Big Four banks have morphed into a ‘Big Two’ and the corporate watchdog isn’t happy about their growing power.Big Four banks morph into ‘Big Two’ 2.When JPMorgan Chase & Co. slashed its dividend 87% in February, from 38 cents to 5 cents per quarter, it marked one of the last dividend holdouts to crumble …
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The following chart shows the domestic market capitalization of different markets from Jan 2008 thru April 2009 (click to expand): Source: World Federation of Exchanges – Focus May 2009 Report The report contains other fascinating statistics on share trading values, domestic market capitalization of individual exchanges, equity investment flows, etc. For eg. – the market …
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