Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2010

Millward Brown Optimor has published the Top 100 Global Brands for 2010. Google tops the ranking this year. The Top 10 global brands are: Google (GOOG) IBM (IBM) Apple (APPL) Microsoft (MSFT) Coca Cola (KO) McDonald’s (MCD) Marlbaro (MO) China Mobile (CHL) GE (GE) Vodafone (VOD) In the financial sector, some of the top brands …

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Knowledge is Power: Colombia,Puerto Rican Banks, Rating Agencies Edition

Colombia ‘most attractive’ for oil & gas investors Roubini Says Rising Sovereign Debt Leads to Defaults  Greece, Spain debt turmoil rattles ETF investors An Ocean Away, Puerto Rican Banks Feel the Crisis Revenge of the Rating Agencies 15 Great Dividend-Paying Stocks Chinese demand fires up Russian coal The world turned upside down Emerging markets at …

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Consumer Spending Growth in Emerging Asia offers Investment Opportunities

The latest edition of Bloomberg Businessweek had an interesting article on the stock picking strategy followed by David Winters of the Wintergreen Fund(WGRNX). He focuses on companies that are poised to profit from the growing consumer spending in countries like India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. The following foreign stocks are some of the holdings of …

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New ADR Listing: Brazilian Railroad-based Logistics Operator

ALL-America Latina Logistica S.A, the Brazil-based Latin America’s independent rail-based logistics operator, listed its ADR on the OTCQX market in Level 2 category with the ticker ALLAY. From the press release: “ALL is currently Latin America‘s largest independent rail-based logistics operator, offering a complete range of logistics services with domestic and international intermodal door-to-door transportation …

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Knowledge is Power: Global Retirement Age Comparison, Dividend, Rails Edition

Asia’s best managed companies: Malaysia and Thailand Asia’s best managed companies: South Korea and Taiwan 3 Companies With Rising Returns on Equity Singapore visitor arrivals 17.3% up on casino boost   TGV Train, France Riding the Rails Dividend growth prospects favour U.S. banks over Canada Portugal’s economy: The importance of not being Greece Big, fat …

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