In a recent article I wrote that the average stock holding period in the NYSE fell to around 7 months in 2007. In addition to this very low holding period, investors today must endure tremendous volatility in the markets. The chart below shows the S&P 500 volatility has changed over the past 33+ years: Click …
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Forbes magazine has published the sixth annual list of the best big publicly listed companies in the Asia-Pacific region. From the magazine’s report: “How do companies pass muster? We started with 936 that had at least $3 billion in revenue or market capitalization. We looked at the five-year record for revenue, operating earnings and return …
The global brand management consultancy Interbrand recently published the Best 100 Global Brands for 2010. Beverage giant Coca Cola(KO) continued to maintain the top spot followed by IBM(IBM) and Microsoft(MSFT). The Best Global Brands 2010: Click to Enlarge Most of these top brands listed above belong to European and American companies. Some of the notable …
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Today I have added a Search button on site. You can use the feature to search either this site only (or) Google. The button is located on the right below “Popular Articles”. Screenshot
Despite the rise and fall of the hi-tech industry in the 90s, the incredible boom and the subsequent bust of the housing market, the vast majority of Americans are actually worse now than before. Two recent articles in The Wall Street Journal confirms this theory. From an article titled “Obstacle to Deficit Cutting: A Nation …
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