Economist Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the term “BRICs” in November 2001 to identify the core set of emerging markets at that time. These countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – did not have many things in common other than all being emerging countries. For example, in terms of political systems Brazil and India follow democracy, …
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A total of 525 foreign stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange at the end of 2012. The complete list of these companies by country, ticker, listed date, etc. are shown in the PDF below: Download: The Complete List of Foreign Stocks Trading on the NYSE (pdf) Update #1: Current List of Foreign Stocks on NYSE …
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Investment management firms manager assets for individuals, institutions, charities, pension funds and others. These firms provide a full range of services from asset management to wealth advisory to everything in between. Investment managers have strong business models and investment in their stocks are worth considering for the following reasons: Investment management firms have for the …
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A well diversified portfolio should include some portion of the assets in utilities. Companies operating in this sector include electric utilities, gas utilities, power distributors, producers and multi-utilities. There are many reasons to invest in electric utilities. In this post let me list a few of them: They offer slow and steady growth over time. …
The $80.0 billion dollar U.S. beer market is highly concentrated with few companies sharing the market. Recently the U.S. Justice Department has filed a suit trying to block Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev’s $20.3 billion takeover of Grupo Modelo of Mexico. The department argues that the merger would stifle competition and hurt consumers. Here is a …