The long-term return charts of many equity markets is not easy to find online. This is especially true in the case of frontier and emerging markets. The following charts show the long-term performance of major equity indices in Asia. The risks with investing in emerging markets is confirmed by dramatic rise and falls of stock …
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The graph below shows the external debt of the G7 countries: Click to enlarge Source: Finance and Development, June 2012, IMF From the G7 Borrowing from Abroad article in the IMF magazine: The United States has the most external debt of the world’s richest countries (the Group of Seven major industrial countries, or G7), but as a …
The insurance industry in the U.S. is dividend into Property & Casualty (P&C) and Life/Health Insurance companies. In other countries, the industry is split into life and non-life or general insurance companies.The insurance industry employs over 2.2 million or about 2% of the total U.S. workforce in the private sector .There were about 2,689 P&C companies and 1,061 Life&Health companies in 2010 …
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The Global Finance magazine published their annual ranking of The Safest Banks in North America for 2012 back in March. From the news release: The banks were selected through a comparison of the long-term credit ratings and total assets of the largest banks. Ratings from Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch were used. The Safest Banks …