Platts, the highly respected energy consulting company, released its Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings for 2009 this week. One of the sub-sector of this ranking is the Fastest Growing Energy Companies in Asia. The Top 20 Fastest Growing Energy Companies in Asia: Note: IOG – Integrated Oil & Gas DU – Diversified Utility …
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Big property bubble forming in China, warns leading developer A large bubble is forming in China’s property market as a result of Beijing’s credit-driven stimulus programme, one of the country’s most prominent real estate developers warned. With the odd exceptions here (Japan, Korea) and there (Turkey, Ireland), most country stock markets are trading at or …
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The Top 3 Singapore banks based on Assets held as of Dec, 2008 are listed below: [TABLE=235] Source: BankScope DBS Group Holdings (OTC:DBSDY) is the largest bank in Singapore by assets followed by United Overseas Bank (OTC:UOVEY). DBSDY has 3.84% dividend yield and UOVEY pays a 1.99% yield as of market close today. Some of …
The US Broad Dividend Achievers Index published by Mergent consists of 283 well established companies with consistent dividend payments in various sectors. Many of the financial stocks that performed poorly last year were eliminated from the index back in January during the annual reconstitution of the index. Currently 32 banks are represented in this index …
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The outstanding US public debt is over $11 Trillion and the interest payments alone total over $22B per month. The unemployment rate reached 10.2% in October. The number of unemployed persons now stands at 15.7 million. The true unofficial unemployment rate U6 is over 17%. While the federal government and the states have taken various …
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