Bloomberg BusinessWeek: 50 Companies To Watch in 2018

BusinessWeek magazine recently published a list of 50 companies to watch for next year. Selected from a list of 6,000 global stocks there are some interesting options in this list to consider for investment. Some of the foreign stocks that appear in this list include: BASF SE (BASFY) Danone SA (DANOY) Eni SpA (E) Mercadolibre …

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End of the Line for National Bank of Greece ADR

National Bank of Greece has announced the termination of its ADR program. The bank’s ADR used to trade on the NYSE under the ticker NBG and crashed hard during the soverign debt crisis and implemented 3 reverse stock splits. Then when that did not work the bank started trading on the OTC market from Dec, …

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Petroleum in Brazil: Infographic

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.  or simply called as Petrobras(PBR) is the state-owned Brazilian oil company. Petrobras used to a high-flier with the ADR hitting over $70 a share in 2008. Since then it has been gone nowhere but down year after year. The massive corruption scandal that was uncovered and falling oil prices have led this …

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Monthly Returns for MSCI AC World Index since 1988: Chart

Global stocks have yielded a positive return every month this year as measured by the MSCI AC World Index . The chart below shows the monthly returns of the index since 1988. Click to enlarge 2017’s uninterrupted and unprecedented streak of monthly gains for global stocks   Source: 5 Reasons Investors Should Give Thanks by JEFFREY KLEINTOP, Schwab, …

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