The Argentine stock market is depressed this year. Argentina’s Merval index is down 8.89% year-to-date(YTD) while Brazil’s Bovespa is up 1.4%, Chile’s IPSA is flat and Mexico’s IPC index has shot up 13.1%. The difference in performance between the Merval and the three other indices is much higher over the past 5 years. The five-year …
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The German economy is the largest economy in Europe. Last year the GDP reached 2.5 Trillion Euros. In the third quarter of this year the economy grew by a seasonally adjusted 0.2% relative to the previous quarter. In the third quarter, the total number of employed persons stood at 41.7 million and the provisional household …
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The Top 10 Colombian Banks for 2012 Based on Tier 1 Capital Ratio as of December 2011 are shown in the table below: Source: Top Latin American Banks by Country, The Banker BBVA Colombia is the subsidiary of Spanish banking group Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA) and Citibank Colombia is the subsidiary of the …
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The Tier 1 Capital ratio is a measure of a bank’s financial strength. The Top 10 Banks of Chile based on this measure as of December , 2011 are listed below: Source: Top Latin American Banks by Country, The Banker Scotiabank Chile is a subsidiary of Bank of Novo Scotia (BNS) of Canada. BBVA Chile …
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