The stock market of Philippines was one of the best performing stock markets last year. It has continued that upward trend and has shot up by another 24% so far this year according to an article in the FT beyondbrics blog. An article on Frontier Markets in Bloomberg BusinessWeek earlier this year had an interesting …
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Charts are great way to visually represent data. The widely popular phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words” is indeed true, in most scenarios. However sometimes one has to dig deeper into the data shown in the chart in order to get a better understanding the information being displayed. From an article titled Real Estate: …
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Here is a chart that shows the various players in the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S.: Click to enlarge One of the fast-growing sectors within the healthcare industry is the pharmacy benefit management(PBM) business. The companies in this space provide administration services to control drug cots to patients and other clients. Express Scripts Holding …
Major U.S. markets reached all-time highs last week. For example, the S&P 500 reached a record high of 1,687.18 surpassing the earlier high attained in 2007 before the global financial crisis. Multi-year return of S&P 500: Source: Yahoo Finance All the cheer and excitement that followed for reaching the milestones may be premature. This is …
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Came across this very interesting cartoon: Click to enlarge Source: Bulletin 2/2013, Credit Suisse AG