The following chart shows the world’s largest markets for electricity: Click to enlarge The U.S. and China consume more than four times the power consumed by the next largest market of Japan. With has a population of about 1.1 billion India’s power generation capacity is much lower than that of China. Though Russia has a …
The U.S. unemployment rate stood at 8.2% in April. Some 12.5 million Americans are unemployed according to official figures and about 29.5% of the unemployed people were jobless for a year or more. For the majority of these unemployed benefits from the state are highly limited when compared to other countries especially the developed countries …
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The following chart shows the total debt as a percentage of GDP among the ten largest OECD countries: Click to enlarge Source: The Absolute Return Letter 2012, Absolute Return Partners LLP Australia, Canada and Germany have the lowest debt while Japan, UK and Spain have the highest debt as a % of GDP. The UK remains …
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Argentina has taken center stage of global politics in recent weeks for all the wrong reasons. The country’s expropriation of the oil company YPF (YPF) from its Spanish parent Repsol (REPYY) has been met with widespread condemnation and retaliatory actions by Spain. In addition, already nervous foreign investors are further pulling their capital out of …
The never-ending European debt crisis has flared again in recent weeks with Spain taking the center stage this past week. While Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Greece were in the news in the past couple of years this is the first time Spain is becoming the focus of investors’ attention. U.S. equity markets have performed well …
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