The Largest and Most Powerful Public Chinese Companies 2015

Every year Forbes magazine publishes the largest companies in the world. These firms are selected based on many factors including revenues. From the 2015 report: The FORBES Global 2000 is a comprehensive list of the world’s largest, most powerful public companies, as measured by revenues, profits, assets and market value. We use a composite score …

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Keep Calm And Consider Buying These Ten Stocks

The U.S. equity market fell sharply today with the Dow down 1.47% and the S&P 500 off by 1.67%. Unlike the dramatic reversal in the markets yesterday, investors simply wanted to dump risky assets such as stocks. Market participants are spooked by a multitude of fears including Greece, China, potential interest rate increase, global economic slowdown, commodity …

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China ADRs: A Review Of Year-To-Date Returns

Chinese equities have plunged dramatically in the past few weeks. From being the top performer among emerging markets, the China equity market has entered the bear market with a fall of over 28% in the Shanghai Composite Index from this year’s peak. Despite the decline, the index is still up by just over 15% year-to-date. …

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Conventional and High Speed Rail Map of China

I wrote about high speed rail network in Europe and North America late last year. And before that I wrote another article on high speed rail network in 2013. In this post, let us take a look at the high speed rail and conventional network map in China: Click to enlarge Source: China’s Army Hauls Ass …

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How Much Exposure Do European Banks Have To Greece ?

European equities have fallen heavily in the past few weeks from their 2015 peaks due to the Greek debt crisis. For example, the DAX has declined from 12,390 in April to 10,667 today. As of July 7 close, the returns of the major indices are listed below: S&P 500 Index: 0.5% UK’s FTSE 100: -0.50% …

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