Asian banks for the most part remained relatively unscathed during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. However that situation appears to be changing. According to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal, “Despite relatively strong economic growth, risks for banks are growing in Asia. Among the risks are a big increase in lending in …
The STOXX® Europe 600 Utilities index is down over 3% YTD (in terms of price in Euros) and is off about 22% in the past 52 weeks. In the past five years the index is down about 50%. Comprising of 27 of the largest utilities in Europe, the performance of the index in the 5-year …
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Depository bank BNY Mellon announced the creation of 14 new unsponsored ADR programs last month. The new unsponsored ADRs are listed below: [TABLE=1058] Disclosure: No Positions
Barclays publishes the Equity Gilt Study each year. The 56th edition was published last year. This report provides useful insights on the performance of US and UK equities, bonds and other assets. In addition, the report contains data on emerging markets, investment strategies and other related information. The following are few of the interesting charts …
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The following chart shows the world’s largest markets for electricity: Click to enlarge The U.S. and China consume more than four times the power consumed by the next largest market of Japan. With has a population of about 1.1 billion India’s power generation capacity is much lower than that of China. Though Russia has a …