Last December I wrote an article about the countries that are vulnerable due to a slowdown in the Chinese economy. The latest edition of Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a short article discussing the same topic: Click to enlarge Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek It is interesting that the tiny city state of Singapore appears in the above list. …
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Two Singapore banks DBS Group Holdings Ltd and United Overseas Bank Ltd trade on the OTC markets. Here is a chart showing the 5-year and long-term return of these banks: 5-Year Return: Click to enlarge Long-term Return: Source: Yahoo Finance 1.Company: DBS Group Holdings Ltd (DBSDY) Current Dividend Yield: 3.17% Market Cap: $34.7 B 2.Company: United Overseas …
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The largest British firms by revenues from the Fortune Global 500 list for 2012 are listed below: Source: Fortune Global 500, Fortune Related ETF: iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF (EWU) Disclosure: No Positions
Last week the Fortune magazine published its Fortune 500 list of companies for this year. The world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores(WMT) topped the ranking with a revenue of over $469.0 billion last year. The next three spots were taken by oil companies – Exxon Mobil(XOM), Chevron (CVX) and Philips 66 (PSX). The following table shows …
The Five Best-Performing Exchange-listed Foreign Bank Stocks are listed below: 1.Company: Bank of Ireland (IRE) Current Dividend Yield: N/A YTD Change: 49.08% Country: Ireland 2.Company: Sumitomo Mitsui Financial (SMFG) Current Dividend Yield: 2.66% YTD Change: 26.70% Country: Japan 3.Company: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial (MTU) Current Dividend Yield: 2.21% YTD Change: 23.62% Country: Japan 4.Company: Credit Suisse …
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