China is the world’s largest importer and consumer of iron ore in the world. Iron ore is used to make steel. Hence China is also the largest producer of steel. As emerging market economies like China, India, Brazil and others invest heavily in their infrastructure the demand for steel would increase. From a Bloomberg report …
The United Nations Conference on Trade And Development (UNCTAD) publishes the World Investment Report each year. This year’s report contains the top 50 multi-national financial companies based on the Geographical Spread Index (GSI). The GSI is “calculated as the square root of the Internationalization Index multiplied by the number of host countries. Theâ€Internationalization Indexâ€, is …
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The Dow Jones Emerging Markets Metals & Mining Titans 30 Index represents “30 of the largest emerging-market companies in the Industrial Metals & Mining and Mining Sectors.Stocks are selected to the index based on rankings by float-adjusted market capitalization, revenue and net profit.” The index is up about 135% as of November 30, 2009. Brazilian …
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The Invesco Perpetual High Income Fund is one of the largest and most popular unit trust (mutual fund) in the U.K. The fund aims to achieve high level of income in addition to capital growth. This fund invests mostly in UK-based companies with the rest invested globally. At the end of November, 2009 it has …
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The Numbers section of the latest edition of BusinessWeek magazine lists the five global companies with the largest market cap gains in the past decade. Of the five companies listed, two each are energy and mining companies and Apple is a hi-tech powerhouse. The growing prominence of emerging market companies is shown by the presence …
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