Last month I wrote an article titled Five Companies with the Largest Market Cap Gains in this Decade. Three of the companies in that list were BHP Billiton, Vale and Petrobras. In the Year-End Review of Markets & Finance, The Wall Street Journal listed the biggest gainers in market value in 2009. Only stocks which …
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Crude oil futures closed at $82.75 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange last Friday. Energy prices have been rising in recent weeks due to the perception that global economy is in recovery mode and that the demand from China and other emerging markets is picking up. It must noted that despite the rise …
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Some of the largest food and drug retailers in the U.S. are Kroger(KR), Safeway (SWY), Whole Food Market(WFMI), Supervalu (SVU) and The Great Atlantic and Pacific (GAP). These companies operate in multiple states and take advantage of their size by selling products sometimes at very low prices. Even the world’s largest retail chain Wal-Mart(WMT) is …
As a consumer staples sector, stocks of food producing companies can provide some margin of safety and stability to a portfolio especially in adverse market conditions. Only a handful of foreign food companies trade in the organized U.S. exchanges. Two of the large global food companies are Europe-based Unilever and Cadbury. British confectioner Cadbury is …
The private-sector job growth in the last decade was non-existent. I discussed this issue last August here. More recently Neil Irwin of Washington Post wrote about the lack of private-sector job growth in the last decade in a piece titled Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers. Charts: Source: Washington Post During the …
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