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The Shanghai Composite index is down over 21% as of last Friday and continues to fall further. An article titled “Chinese Savers Turn to Their Stockbrokers” in the latest edition of Bloomberg BusinessWeek suggests that equities are now preferred over savings and real estate. From the article: “Ordinary Chinese investors are looking to stocks for …
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The 10 most profitable publicly-listed Indian companies that appear in the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below: [TABLE=504] Except IT outsourcing firm Infosys Technologies (INFY), none of the other companies trade on the US markets. The most profitable company in India is the state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp. which made$3.86B last …
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The four largest “Too Big To Fail(TBTF)” U.S. banks Bank of America (BAC), JPMorgan Chase(JPM), Citigroup (C) and Wells Fargo(WFC) continue to remain as the largest banks in the country. These TBTF banks are also known as the superbanks. From a November, 2009 article titled Too-Big-To-Fail and the Theory of Large Numbers by Henry C.K. …
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U.S. stocks generally have lower dividend yields than foreign stocks. For example, the current yield of the S&P 500 is 2.14%. Compared to this many foreign markets have much higher yields. In 2009, U.S. stocks paid 1.93%. Among the large 20 countries by market capitalization only Russia, India and Korea had lower yields than the …
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