Greek debt crisis: could it happen in the UK? Asia’s Best Managed Companies: India and Singapore MarketWatch is Wrong… Here’s The Case For Investing in Small Caps ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank are ‘foreign owned, Indian controlled’ Economix: Where All That Money Went Why Africa Is Poor-II Top-rated fund manager piles into UK banks World’s 100 …
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The FDIC shutdown three banks in Puerto Rico(PR) yesterday which were on the verge of failure. The closed banks cost over $5B to the FDIC’s Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF). The three closed banks are: 1. W Holding Co. Inc.’s Westernbank (WHI) 2. R&G Financial Corp.’s R-G Premier Bank(OTC: RGFC) 3. EuroBancshares Inc.’s EuroBank Source: WSJ …
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Millward Brown Optimor has published the Top 100 Global Brands for 2010. Google tops the ranking this year. The Top 10 global brands are: Google (GOOG) IBM (IBM) Apple (APPL) Microsoft (MSFT) Coca Cola (KO) McDonald’s (MCD) Marlbaro (MO) China Mobile (CHL) GE (GE) Vodafone (VOD) In the financial sector, some of the top brands …
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Colombia ‘most attractive’ for oil & gas investors Roubini Says Rising Sovereign Debt Leads to Defaults Greece, Spain debt turmoil rattles ETF investors An Ocean Away, Puerto Rican Banks Feel the Crisis Revenge of the Rating Agencies 15 Great Dividend-Paying Stocks Chinese demand fires up Russian coal The world turned upside down Emerging markets at …
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The latest edition of Bloomberg Businessweek had an interesting article on the stock picking strategy followed by David Winters of the Wintergreen Fund(WGRNX). He focuses on companies that are poised to profit from the growing consumer spending in countries like India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. The following foreign stocks are some of the holdings of …
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