Global Finance magazine published its annual ranking of the world’s best banks in March. The following is a list of the The World’s Best Developed Markets Banks for 2015. These banks were selected based on many factors including objective and subjective factors. From the press release: The winners of this year’s awards are those banks that …
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Its been a few years since I looked at the largest firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE). So here are the top 25 companies on the NYSE based on Market Capitalization. All these firms have market caps of $50.0 billion or more. A few observations: Despite the fall in oil prices U.S. oil major Exxon …
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Is Germany’s big export surplus a problem? (Deutsche Welle) Stuck in low global growth and India overtaking China – is this the ‘new normal’ (The Guardian) US Equities outlook – Where do we go from here? (Money Observer) Europe turning the corner (Fidelity) Mastering Global Diversification: What the Masters Tells Us About the Markets (Charles Schwab) Should …
Korean companies were not known for their dividend payouts until recently. Korea had one of the lowest dividend yields when compared to other developed countries as shown in the chart below. Though the country is a developed country technically it is considered as an emerging market by MSCI. Click to enlarge Source: When Looking For Emerging …
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In 2010 I wrote an article on the continued decline in holding periods of stocks globally. In that article I included the following chart that shows the average holding period for a given stock on the NYSE: Click to enlarge Source: Stock Holding Periods Growing Shorter On this week’s The Intelligent Investor column, Jason Zweig …
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