The 10 Most Traded Stocks on the OTC Market are: Danone (DANOY) Danone (GPDNF) Nestle (NSRGY) Tesco plc(TSCDY) Daimler (DDAIF) Nokia (NOKBF) LyondellBasell Industries NV (LALLF) Deutsche Telecom (DTEGY) Anglo American plc (AAUKY) Allianz SE (AZESY)
The World Bank released its latest China Quarterly Update last month. The following are some of the key takeaways from this report: 1. In the first quarter of this year, a large portion of lending still went to local government investment platforms (LGIPs) as the chart below shows. After infrastructure, local governments invest heavily in …
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The table below lists Bloomberg Businessweek‘s ranking of 50 companies in the S&P 500 index with the best total returns for shareholders over the last five years as of Mar. 31, 2010: [TABLE=516] Of all the companies in the S&P 500 it is surprising to see Priceline.com(PCLN), a dot-com company, top the list with the …
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The following five Latin American ADR stocks have dividend yields of more than 6% as of July 1, 2010: 1.Company:Compania Cervecerias Unidas SA (CCU) Current Dividend Yield: 6.03% Sector: Alcoholic Beverages Country: Chile 2.Company: Grupo Radio Centro SAB de CV (RC) Current Dividend Yield: 6.48% Sector: Broadcasting & Cable TV Country: Mexico 3.Company: TAM SA …
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The graphic below shows the change in composition of World GDP over the last 500 years. The economy of China and India were much larger in the 16th,17th, 18th and 19th centuries than they are today.Both the economies started to shrink from the 1850s. However they are growing at an increasing pace with China’s GDP …
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