The U.S. is the world’d largest consumer of petroleum products primarily oil. Though the total population is about 330 million, every day millions of barrels of oil are used due to the high dependence on automobile for transportation. In fact, the country consumed 18.8 million barrels per day (MMbd) of petroleum products during 2011 according …
The EURO STOXX® Chemicals Index is composed of some of the largest chemical firms in Europe. Currently there are 16 components in this index. The long-term return of the index is shown below: Click to enlarge Source: Euro Stoxx Indices For investors looking to gain exposure to the European chemical industry the companies in the index …
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One of the reasons most retail investors perform so poorly in stock investing is that they tend to chase performance. Investors always go with the hottest theme or stock that driving the markets at any given time. During the late 1990s it was tech stocks, energy and security stocks after the 9/11 attacks, banking and …
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The January edition of The Banker magazine has published the list top ranked banks in Africa under many categories. The Top 10 African banks by Profit in the full year of 2011 are shown in the table below: Click to enlarge Source: The Banker South African banks dominate the list taking 6 of the 10 …
Thousands of mid-cap companies trade on the US markets. These companies generally tend to have small market caps of $1 billion to $5 billion. Though the actual definition of mid-cap companies varies, they can be considered as firms that are neither huge such as the giants with multi-billion market caps or very small with a …