As the markets continue to whipsaw investors left and right,its time to look for players who are still in the green year to date. For starters, here are three such winners:

1.Company Name: Endesa-Empresa Nacional de Electricidad
Ticker: EOC
Country: Chile
Year-To-Date change: 13.92%

2.Company Name: Telefonos de Mexico
Ticker: TMX
Country: Mexico
Year-To-Date change: 13.65%

3.Company Name: Coca-Cola Femsa
Ticker: KOF
Country: Mexico
Year-To-Date change: 2.76%

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Oil price closed today below $94 a barrel after reaching a record high of $147 in July this year. The fall in the price of crude oil has been attributed to lower demand worldwide especially in emerging markets like India,China,etc.

When oil price reached the peak in July, oil stocks did not go up very high in sync.Similarly oil stocks have not fallen as much as the price of oil has in the past few months.This is because many folks consider them to be cyclical stocks. Whether oil prices go up or down in the future, I believe that oil is an important commodity needed by the majority of the world. Hence oil stocks can be a good addition to a diversified portfolio.

Outside of US,there are many oil firms such as EcoPetrol(Colombia), Petronas(Malaysia) or Petrobras(Brazil) that are worth looking into. The following is a list of some of the foreign oil stocks trading as ADRs in the US:

1.Company Name: BP Plc (BP)
Country: UK
Dividend Yield: 6.84%
Year-To-Date change: -35.71%

2.Company Name: Total S.A (TOT)
Country: France
Dividend Yield: 5.43%
Year-To-Date change: -31.63%

3.Company Name: PetroChina (PTR)
Country: China
Dividend Yield: 3.99%
Year-To-Date change: -43.79 %

4.Company Name: Sasol (SSL)
Country: South Africa
Dividend Yield: 5.95%
Year-To-Date change: -26.88 %

5.Company Name: Petrobras (PBR)
Country: Brazil
Dividend Yield: 0.08%
Year-To-Date change: -33.91 %

6.Company Name: Petrobras Energia (PZE)
Country: Argentina
Dividend Yield: 3.93%
Year-To-Date change: -30.25 %

7.Company Name: Statoilhydro ASA (STO)
Country: Norway
Dividend Yield: 3.74%
Year-To-Date change: -32.83 %

8.Company Name: Repsol YPF (REP)
Country: Spain
Dividend Yield: 5.52%
Year-To-Date change: -24.05 %

9.Company Name: Eni Spa (E)
Country: Italy
Dividend Yield: 7.39%
Year-To-Date change: -31.92 %

10.Company Name: EcoPetrol (EC)
Country: Colombia
Dividend Yield: N/A
Year-To-Date change: N/A

11.Company Name: Royal Dutch Shell – A Shares (RDS.A)
Country: UK
Dividend Yield: 5.04%
Year-To-Date change: -34.38 %

12.Company Name: Royal Dutch Shell – B Shares (RDS.B)
Country: UK
Dividend Yield: 5.92%
Year-To-Date change: -34.93 %

13.Company Name: Gazprom (OGZPY)
Country: Russia
Dividend Yield: N/A
Year-To-Date change: -50.05 %

14.Company Name: Lukoil (LUKOY)
Country: Russia
Dividend Yield: 0.90%
Year-To-Date change: -35.92%

15.Company Name: MOL Magyar Olaj-ES Gazipari (MGYOY)
Country: Hungary
Dividend Yield: 4.91%
Year-To-Date change: -40.01%

Disclosure: Long PBR

Note: All data used is considered to be accurate as of October 2, 2008. Do your own research before making any investment decision.

Here are three fixed line telecom stocks from France, Greece and Germany trading in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE):

1.France Telecom – FTE
Stock Price Year-To-Date: -18.64%

2. Hellenic Telecom- OTE
Stock Price Year-To-Date: -52.79%

3.Deutsche Telekom – DT
Stock Price Year-To-Date: -26.95%

Short post today.

The following table shows the performance of Latin American bank stocks so far this year:

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The two Chilean banks Banco Santander and Banco de Chile and the Colombian bank BanColombia are down less than 20% year-to-date. The Brazilian bank Itau is performing well than Banco Bradesco and Unibanco.All the Argentine stocks are down considerably.

Investors interested in Latin American bank stocks may want to keep an eye on these stocks thru the reminder of the year.

Foreign bank stocks have fallen heavily in the past few months in tandem with their US peers due to the credit crisis. Last week was a crazy week as many of the bank stocks skyrocketed due to the short covering rally. Many are not sure what will happen after the ban on shorting of financials ends on Oct 2nd.

Some of the bank stocks that were heavily shorted before went high due to the rally. Still there are some foreign banks that are still down > 50% year-to-date. Its possible that these banks may be cheap now if the bailout plan for the US market works. On the other hand one must remember that these bad beaten down stocks are cheap for a reason. They have had huge losses or the economy where they operate is in a downturn.

In the list below, the worst ADR YTD is Allied Irish Bank (AIB) which is down over 60%. This is not surprising since the Irish economy has been hurting badly in the past couple of years. For the same reason the other Irish ADR, IRE is also down over 54%.

The best bank ADR so far this year is the London-based HSBC bank(HBC). It is down just 2.34% YTD. Compared to other British banks like LYG and RBS which are over 40% and 50% down YTD, HBC’s performance is very good.

The following table lists the worst and the best bank ADRs year-to-date:

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