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Invest in North American Railroad Stocks for the Long Term

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The railroad industry plays an important and critical role in the economic growth of North America countries. Railroads in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. are inter-connected for seamless and efficient transportation of freight across the continent. Due to the vastness of the U.S. and Canada, railroads move a tremendous amount of goods and materials cheaply from one …

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A Note on the Top Life Insurance Companies in the World

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Life insurance is a big business in many part of the world. For example, in many European countries life insurance policies are preferred by consumers over other financial products such as equities.In France and Germany people have more of their retirement in insurance products than equities.Similarly Japanese also invest in life insurance policies for their retirement …

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The World’s Top 10 Companies by Market Capitalization

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Its been a while since I wrote a post about the largest global firms.The Wall Street Journal published the following graphic showing the world’s ten largest firms by market capitalization in an article on Apple Inc (AAPL): Click to enlarge   Source: Apple Boosts Size of Bond Deal to $6.5 Billion, Feb 3, 2015, The Wall …

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Economic Growth: Asia vs. Developed Countries

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Asian economies continue to grow outpacing the economic growth of developed world making a compelling case for investing in Asia, according to a report by Nikko Asset Management. Asian countries excluding Japan have more than doubled their GDP as a percentage of the world total GDP from 9% in 1998 to more than 20% in 2013. …

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Morgan Stanley: European Stocks Are 40% Cheaper than U.S. Stocks

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In the past few weeks I wrote a number of bullish articles on European equities. You can find some of them here, here, here and here. Over the weekend The Wall Street Journal published an interesting piece on the same topic. The entire article is worth a read. From the article: The Case of Europe …

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