The Mexican stock market reached record highs since Enrique Peña Nieto became the President last year. Despite drug violence the country’s economy performed well in the past few years. Though the Mexican economy is highly related to the U.S. economy, it recovered quickly from the recession following the global financial crisis. Mexico’s manufacturing industry is …
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The U.S. population as of Mar 9, 2013 is 315,462,878 according to the POPClock by the U.S. Census Bureau. The World population as of the same date is 7,071,147,165. Some interesting facts on the U.S. population provided by the Census Bureau: White persons, percent, 2011: 78.1% Black persons, percent, 2011: 13.1% American Indian and Alaska Native persons, …
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In December, 2012 China opened the high-speed rail line between Beijing and Guangzhou. The distance of 2,298 Kms between these cities will be covered by high-speed trains at less than 10 hours going at over 300 Km/hr. The trains effectively cut the travel time in half between these major Chinese cities. With the addition of this line, the …
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Every year Callan Associates publishes their famous Callan Period Table of Investment Returns. Recently they updated the table with data for the year 2012. The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns for 2012 is shown below: Click to enlarge Source: Callan Associates Some interesting observations from the table are: In 2012, the emerging markets beat U.S. …
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In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama proposed raising the Federal minimum wage from the current $7.25 to $9.00 per hour. 19 States already have minimum wages of over $7.25/hr and the state of Washington has a minimum wage of over $9.00/hr. As expected this topic is being hotly debated by economists and media pundits. …
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