The following chart shows the performance of bank equity prices in Euro area, U.S. and emerging markets from the end of 2009 thru April, 2012: Source: Euro Briefing, April 2012, Institute of International Finance U.S. banks are better performers than European banks and even the banks in emerging markets as shown by the green line. …
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Investing is like gambling? Not a chance UK ensnared in eurozone ‘mega crisis’, says Bootle All Work and Low Pay – Getting By Without Minimum Wage in Germany The psychology of debt Share buybacks: the other way company managers rob you How to pay less tax ‘Clear evidence of a bubble is lacking’—really? Eurozone crisis “irrelevant” to …
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Stock trading on the US exchanges reached a peak in 2008 from steadily increasing yearly since the bursting of the dot com bubble. According to an article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek trading volumes has declined considerably on the NYSE and NASDAQ. From the report: Both exchange companies are contending with similar forces: an overall slowdown in …
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The manufacturing sector was decimated with the past few decades due to globalization. Millions of workers lost their jobs as companies moved their factories overseas where labor cheap and regulations lax, especially in emerging countries. However in the past few years labor costs in countries such as China, India and others have soared reducing the …
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Most investors have stayed away from European banks since the credit crisis and the subsequent sovereign debt crises for good reason. Though European bank stocks rebounded last year and early this year, in the past few weeks they have fallen heavily due to the bailouts in Spain, political and fiscal issues in Greece and Italy …
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