The Italian equity market is one of the hardest hit markets in the world this year due to the European debt crisis and Italy’s own fiscal crisis that came to the forefront of investors’ attention this week. The FTSE MIB, Itlay’s benchmark equity index is down well over 20% YTD. However with the current Prime …
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** For the latest t0p 10 companies go to: The Top 10 Italian Companies By Market Cap 2016 ****** The table below lists the Top 10 Italian companies based on Market Capitalization including the ADR ticker if available: [TABLE=1029] Source: Financial Times Intesa Sanpaolo SpA (ISNPY), UniCredit SpA and Assicurazioni Generali SpA (ARZGY) can be …
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Italy is making headlines in the past few weeks after the Greek crisis settled down at least temporarily. Part of the PIIGS list of countries, Italy has the second highest debt load at 119 % of the GDP while Greece leads the Euro zone at 142% of GDP. The population of Italy is about 61 …
Italian bank stocks fell heavily on Friday.Trading in some banks was suspended due to high volatility in the Milan Stock Exchange. From Italian Banks Sidestep Debt Crisis, Not Vice Versa in The Wall Street Journal: MILAN—With virtually no exposure to Greece and other peripheral euro-zone countries, Italian banks have seemed relatively immune to Europe’s debt …
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The 10 most profitable publicly-listed Italian companies that appear in the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below: [TABLE=573] Related ETF: iShares MSCI Italy Fund (EWI)