Every year Fortune magazine publishes its famous list of Global 500 companies ranked by Revenue and Profits. The rankings for 2012 are listed below: Energy companies dominate the top 10 spots since they benefit immensely from high oil prices. Oil giant Royal DutchShell (RDS-A, RDS-B) topped the list based on revenues followed by ExxonMobil (XOM). …
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The British banking industry is slowly recovering from a multitude of problems including the effects of global financial crisis, the European debt crisis, the LIBOR manipulation scandal, etc. Among the top five banks, three reported decent earnings for last year. In addition, HSBC, Barclays and Standard Chartered also increased their dividends for the first time since the financial …
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The Mexican stock market reached record highs since Enrique Peña Nieto became the President last year. Despite drug violence the country’s economy performed well in the past few years. Though the Mexican economy is highly related to the U.S. economy, it recovered quickly from the recession following the global financial crisis. Mexico’s manufacturing industry is …
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The U.S. population as of Mar 9, 2013 is 315,462,878 according to the POPClock by the U.S. Census Bureau. The World population as of the same date is 7,071,147,165. Some interesting facts on the U.S. population provided by the Census Bureau: White persons, percent, 2011: 78.1% Black persons, percent, 2011: 13.1% American Indian and Alaska Native persons, …
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In December, 2012 China opened the high-speed rail line between Beijing and Guangzhou. The distance of 2,298 Kms between these cities will be covered by high-speed trains at less than 10 hours going at over 300 Km/hr. The trains effectively cut the travel time in half between these major Chinese cities. With the addition of this line, the …
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