The 32 largest French firms appearing in the Fortune Global 500 List for 2012 are listed below. These firms were ranked based on revenues. These companies can be considered as France’s multinational giants. Source: Fortune Global 500, Fortune Carrefour SA (CRRFY) is one of the world’s largest retailers. It is bigger than US giant Walmart(WMT) …
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Emerging markets have been laggards this year. Among the BRICs Brazilian stocks have also not fared well either due to state intervention in businesses and sluggish economic growth in the past few years. From an article in the Financial Times yesterday: Gross domestic product grew less than 1 per cent last year, the lowest of …
The Spanish firms appearing in the Fortune Global 500 list are shown below: Source: Fortune Global 500, Fortune Despite all the troubles in recent years banking groups Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria(BBVA) and Banco Santander(SAN) are still large enough to make it to this global ranking. Related ETFs: iShares MSCI Spain Capped Index (EWP) The complete …
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Russia is a natural resourced based economy. Oil and natural gas especially are the two key industries. Hence firms from the energy industry dominate the top firms listed below. These 7 companies appear in the Fortune Global 500 list for 2012. Source: Fortune Global 500, Fortune None of the Russian energy giants trade on the …
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Commodity prices including those of precious metals tend to go through super-cycles. Booms and busts occur as a result of these cycles. These cycles last for many years. In the latest super-cycle gold prices have climbed consistently in the last decade up until 2011 when prices reached a peak of just over $1,900.00. Since then …
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