In an earlier post, we looked at the world’s top diamond producing countries. The table below lists the diamond mining stocks by country:
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Global mining giants BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Anglo American have significant operations in diamond mining as well.
Related:
The World’s Top 100 Mining Stocks
Also Checkout:
The World’s Top Diamond-Producing CountriesÂ
The 10 most profitable publicly-listed Italian companies that appear in the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below:
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Related ETF:
iShares MSCI Italy Fund (EWI)
The 10 largest publicly-listed most profitable French companies that appear in the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below:
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Related ETF:
iShares MSCI The France (EWQ)
The 10 largest publicly-listed Norwegian companies based on sales for 2009 that appear in the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2010 are listed below:
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The Top 10 credit card issuers in Western Europe based on number of cards in issue last year is listed below:
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Source: Lafferty Group
Barclays Plc(BCS) of the UK tops the ranking with over 13 million cards issued thru its Barclaycard division. It is interesting to note that Bank of America’s MBNA unit(BAC) and Citibank (C) appear in this list. The credit card penetration rate in Western Europe is small relative to the US. For example, each adult in North America holds about 2.3 cards compared to just 0.7 in Western Europe.Nevertheless BofA and Citi beat other large European card issuers to make it to the top 10 list.
The British government owns 83% of Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS) and 41% of Llyods group(LYG) after the rescue of these banks during the credit crisis.