The Dow Jones Emerging Markets Metals & Mining Titans 30 Index represents “30 of the largest emerging-market companies in the Industrial Metals & Mining and Mining Sectors.Stocks are selected to the index based on rankings by float-adjusted market capitalization, revenue and net profit.” The index is up about 135% as of November 30, 2009. Brazilian …
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The Invesco Perpetual High Income Fund is one of the largest and most popular unit trust (mutual fund) in the U.K. The fund aims to achieve high level of income in addition to capital growth. This fund invests mostly in UK-based companies with the rest invested globally. At the end of November, 2009 it has …
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The Numbers section of the latest edition of BusinessWeek magazine lists the five global companies with the largest market cap gains in the past decade. Of the five companies listed, two each are energy and mining companies and Apple is a hi-tech powerhouse. The growing prominence of emerging market companies is shown by the presence …
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