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Relationship between Healthcare Spending and Health

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High healthcare spending does not necessarily mean better health. Even with lower spending people can live healthier lives and live longer. Generally developed countries tend to high healthcare expenditures whether funded by the state or by private individuals. I came across the following charts showing the relationship between healthcare expenditures and life expectancy. Click to …

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Is China The World’s Financial Superpower?

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China is a net creditor nation and the U.S. is a the world’s largest net debtor nation. The Chinese are the largest holders of U.S. Treasury securities with total holdings exceeding $1.2 Trillion as of January this year. Every year the U.S pays billions of dollars as interest for this debt to China. According to an article …

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Which French Companies Are Global Multinationals?

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The 32 largest French firms appearing in the Fortune Global 500 List for 2012 are listed below. These firms were ranked based on revenues. These companies can be considered as France’s multinational giants.     Source: Fortune Global 500, Fortune Carrefour SA (CRRFY) is one of the world’s largest retailers. It is bigger than US giant Walmart(WMT) …

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Ten Brazilian Stocks To Consider

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Emerging markets have been laggards this year. Among the BRICs Brazilian stocks have also not fared well either due to state intervention in businesses and sluggish economic growth in the past few years. From an article in the Financial Times yesterday: Gross domestic product grew less than 1 per cent last year, the lowest of …

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The Eight Largest Spanish Companies By Revenue 2012

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The Spanish firms appearing in the Fortune Global 500 list are shown below:     Source: Fortune Global 500, Fortune Despite all the troubles in recent years banking groups Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria(BBVA) and Banco Santander(SAN) are still large enough to make it to this global ranking. Related ETFs: iShares MSCI Spain Capped Index (EWP) The complete …

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