Emerging market stocks have soared this year after years of under performance. For example, while th S&P 500 is up just over 14% YTD Brazil’s Bovespa has increased by nearly 28%. The year-to-date returns of some of the emerging markets are shown below: India’s Bombay Sensex: 21.8% Chile’s Santiago IPSA: 28.6% Argentina’s Merval: 60.4% Other major …
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Interesting infographic showing the struggles and importance of the Catalan economy to Spain: Click to enlarge Source: SputnikNews
I came across the following animation on global land and sea temperature changes since 1900: How land and ocean temperatures have changed around the world. Data from https://t.co/6x2Yq61wzU pic.twitter.com/WEcoizoYnd — John Kennedy (@micefearboggis) September 28, 2017 Via Twitter
Copper prices have soared so far this year. After years of poor performance copper prices started goin gup late last year and have continued that upward trend this year. Prices shot up to $7,000 a metric ton this year. The following chart shows the solid growth in copper prices: Click to enlarge Source: Chart …
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A research report recently published by Credit Suisse(CS) showed that family-owned companies outperformed their non-family owned peers. CS defined a family-owned firm as (1) direct shareholding by founders or descendants of at least 20%; (2) voting rights held by founders or descendants of at least 20%. The Top 50 family-owned firms globally based on market cap, …
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