Recently Canadian Business magazine published its 11th annual ranking of Canada’s 500 largest publicly-traded companies. This list is grouped by various categories such as best value stocks, best dividend stocks, mid caps, small caps, etc. In this post lets review the companies that earned the largest profits. The Top 15 Canadian companies based on profits: …
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Many of the utility stocks in Europe have been hit hard in the past few months due to the Eurozone crisis. Unlike financials investors need not completely avoid these utilities. Some of European utilities have solid business models and excel in the renewable energy field due to state subsidies. In addition, they have operations in …
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The graphic below shows the top 25 worst global banks based on losses: Source: The Banker Except VTB-Bank of Russia, all the losers in this list are from Europe, the U.S. and Japan. None of the major emerging market banks appear in this list which confirms their strength during the global financial crisis.