Recently the BusinessWeek magazine published The 100 Best Global Brands 2009 list. The brands of US companies dominate this list as the US continues to be number one in innovation, marketing, technological leadership, etc. The Top 10 Best Global Brands in 2009 listed by their ranking are: 1. Coca Cola (KO) 2. IBM (IBM) 3. …
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The Top 250 Global Energy Companies for 2009 will be announced by Platts, the highly respected energy consultancy, in November. Some of the companies from emerging markets in Asia are expected to move up in this list compared to last year’s rankings. Crude oil futures for October delivery traded at above $72 in the New …
The U.S. food giant Kraft Foods (KFT) has made a £10.2bn bid ($16.7 billion) to acquire Cadbury (CBY), the most famous confectionery company of U.K. The deal values Cadbury share at 745 pence a share.(Note:1 British Pound (£)= 100 pence) Cadbury’s board quickly rejected the offer saying that saying that the deal undervalues the company. …
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As the world’s largest country in terms of area Russia also has the world’s largest reserves of many natural resources. The country is blessed with an abundant supply of oil, natural gas, gold, diamond and other resources. In fact these resources exceed the reserves of commodity producing countries like Canada and Australia. However the vast …
Recently MoneySense magazine of Canada published the ten best stocks to buy and hold for the next 10 years. The stocks selected are listed below: Boeing (BA) Cemex (CX) Ebay (EBAY) Fairfax Financial (FFX) Leucadia National JNJ (JNJ) Microsoft (MSFT) Service Corp Transcanada (TRP) Walmart (WMT) Of the ten stocks above, majority of them are …