In an earlier post we looked at the Best Banks in Latin America based on rankings by the Global Finance magazine. The table below lists the Best Banks in Asia for 2011: [TABLE=890] Source: Global Finance China’s Industrial And Commercial Bank Of China Ltd aka ICBC trades on the OTC market under the ticker IDCBY …
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Portugal used to be called The Sick Man of Europe before the economy recovered in the 1990s. However in 2007 The Economist magazine dubbed the country as the “new sick man of Europe”. More recently traders made it a member of the PIGS group of countries. Despite being part of the EU and appearance of …
Elster Group ADR – Terminated Effective 12/6/13. Details here. Essen, Germany-based Elster Group(ELT) is a world leader in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and integrated metering and utilization solutions to the gas, electricity and water industries. The company’s products and solutions are used to accurately and reliably measure gas, electricity and water consumption as well as …
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College tuition rates are increasing year-after-year in the U.S. making more students carry heavier debt-loads by the time they graduate. Last year for the first time, student-loan debt surpassed credit-card debt.From an article in The Wall Street Journal: Consumers now owe more on their student loans than their credit cards. Americans owe some $826.5 billion …
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In order to identify some of the high dividend paying stocks in the Euro Zone countries I referred to the EURO STOXX® Select Dividend 30 Index. This index “offers exposure to the 30 highest dividend-paying stocks from Euro Zone countries. Only companies are included that have a non-negative historical five-year dividend-per-share growth rate and a …
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