“Sell in May and go away” is one of the popular Wall Street strategies. According to this concept, an investors is better-off selling his or her stock holdings in the month of May and then buying back in late in November. When trading volumes are traditionally low during the hot summer months as traders and fund …
Last December I wrote an article about the countries that are vulnerable due to a slowdown in the Chinese economy. The latest edition of Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a short article discussing the same topic: Click to enlarge Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek It is interesting that the tiny city state of Singapore appears in the above list. …
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Two Singapore banks DBS Group Holdings Ltd and United Overseas Bank Ltd trade on the OTC markets. Here is a chart showing the 5-year and long-term return of these banks: 5-Year Return: Click to enlarge Long-term Return: Source: Yahoo Finance 1.Company: DBS Group Holdings Ltd (DBSDY) Current Dividend Yield: 3.17% Market Cap: $34.7 B 2.Company: United Overseas …
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The largest British firms by revenues from the Fortune Global 500 list for 2012 are listed below: Source: Fortune Global 500, Fortune Related ETF: iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF (EWU) Disclosure: No Positions
Last week the Fortune magazine published its Fortune 500 list of companies for this year. The world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores(WMT) topped the ranking with a revenue of over $469.0 billion last year. The next three spots were taken by oil companies – Exxon Mobil(XOM), Chevron (CVX) and Philips 66 (PSX). The following table shows …