The Top 10 Hungarian banks based on assets as of December 2009 are listed below: [TABLE=687] Source: FT Foreign banks have invested heavily in Hungarian banks. For example, MKB is majority owned by BayernLB. Raiffeisen is one of the leading Austrian Banks. CIB is majority owned by Intesa SanPaolo of Italy. GE(GE) of U.S. owns …
Closed-end funds are considered to be cheap when the market prices of their shares trade at a discount to their NAVs. Hence investors looking to add some of this asset type to their portfolio may want to pick them up when they trade at a discount as opposed to a premium. From a recent Journal …
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The STOXX Americas Select Dividend 40 Index measures the performance of the highest dividend-paying stocks relative to their home markets. This index is created based on the following conditions: Stocks are screened by defined historical non-negative dividend-per-share growth rates and dividend to earnings-per-share ratios. Index components are weighted by their indicated annual net dividend yield, …
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The table below lists the Top 10 European companies by market capitalization as of November 15, 2010: [TABLE=678] Source: FT Markets Data The above list excludes firms from Eastern Europe and Russia and the market cap is based on the stock price on the domestic exchanges. Among the many European banking giants, only HSBC (HBC) …
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“I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there’s a fantastic brand loyalty.” – Warren Buffet Page Updated: 4/7/19 The tobacco industry sells about six trillion cigarettes each year. The industry is highly concentrated with a handful of firms controlling …
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