The Top 10 Global Electric Utilities

I selected the The Top 10 Global Electric Utilities from the “Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings” for 2009. Generally electric utility stocks offer solid dividend yields and have slow growth. Investors love them because of their yields and their monopolistic nature in most markets. Though highly regulated, electricity companies make decent profits year …

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The Top 25 Global Energy Companies by Platts

The Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings for 2009 was released by Platts this week. This is the eighth year that Platts has published the rankings. The factors used to select these Top Financial Performers are: Asset worth Revenues Profits Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) Rankings are based are data from Standard & Poor’s …

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Platts: Asia’s 20 Fastest Growing Energy Companies

Platts, the highly respected energy consulting company, released its Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings for 2009 this week. One of the sub-sector of this ranking is the Fastest Growing Energy Companies in Asia. The Top 20 Fastest Growing Energy Companies in Asia: Note: IOG – Integrated Oil & Gas DU – Diversified Utility …

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Knowledge is Power:World’s Top 100 Mining Stocks, China Property Bubble Edition

Big property bubble forming in China, warns leading developer A large bubble is forming in China’s property market as a result of Beijing’s credit-driven stimulus programme, one of the country’s most prominent real estate developers warned. With the odd exceptions here (Japan, Korea) and there (Turkey, Ireland), most country stock markets are trading at or …

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Top 3 Singapore Banks by Assets

The Top 3 Singapore banks based on Assets held as of Dec, 2008 are listed below: [TABLE=235] Source: BankScope DBS Group Holdings (OTC:DBSDY) is the largest bank in Singapore by assets followed by United Overseas Bank (OTC:UOVEY). DBSDY has 3.84% dividend yield and UOVEY pays a 1.99% yield as of market close today. Some of …

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