The latest edition of Global Finance magazine has published The World’s Best Banks for 2012.From the cover story: Some of the most successful global banks have cut back in Europe to focus on faster-growing emerging markets. Global Finance has identified the best banks in 136 countries and eight regions, as well as the best banks globally in …
Holding an investment such as stocks, bonds or other assets usually yields higher returns over the long-term than short-term. The minimum long-term can defined as a duration of five years but depends depends on many factors including an individual investor’s situation. Stocks for the long-term must be high quality stocks that pay dividends, have consistent …
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A time of hoarding and inflation fears, 1930s edition Growth Warning – Top German Economists Say Greece Is Lost 1,000,000 pages below: a search engine that plumbs the Web’s depths How to invest in the auto industry rebound Is there a bubble in Bric banks? More to Russia than oil, says Invesco’s Rubinstein Europe’s own …
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Earlier this month Nippon Steel Corp. and Sumitomo Metal Corp. of Japan merged to form the second biggest steelmaker in the world. The merged company had a combined production capacity of 46 million tons which is about half of production capacity of the number one global steelmaker ArcelorMittal (MT). Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal trades on the OTC market …
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Germany has set an ambitious plan to move away from fossil fuels and abandon nuclear power in the coming years. As a major industrial powerhouse this a big challenge since the country has to find other sources of electricity to replace the power generated from fossil fuels and nuclear power. Germany is increasingly depending renewable …
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