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  • Latin America’s Mobile-Phone Market Leader Takes Strain

    Despite past market performance by Latin America’s largest mobile-phone company, America Movil, which until recently showed more than a twenty percent increase in customers, analysts are ...

  • Who wants to be a Millionaire?

    Despite the ongoing credit crisis and sluggish economic growth in many countries, the 12th annual World Wealth Report released recently by Merrill Lynch and Gapgemini revealed that the ...

  • NYSE Euronext Enters Middle East Market

    Transatlantic stock exchange giant, NYSE Euronext, has surged ahead in its quest to gain ground as a truly global stock exchange by buying a 25 percent stake in the State of Qatar’s Doha ...

  • Are Investments in Innovations Worthwhile?

    The ultimate goal of innovation is to implement positive change, and innovation is an important factor for the increase of wealth in an economy. However, often the financial benefits of ...

  • NASDAQ OMX Group – Making All the Right Moves

    NASDAQ OMX Group’s U.S. and Nordic stock exchanges consolidated market performance statistics for the month of May 2008 were released on 23 June. Following the successful NASDAQ bid to buy ...

  • Could the Liquidity Theory Work for You?

    The liquidity theory asserts that the stock market is no different from any other market in that it is all a matter of supply and demand. The liquidity theory claims that stock prices are ...

  • Mixed Reaction to RBS Stock Market Alert

    The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has sounded a warning to clients to be prepared for a crash in stock and credit markets on a global scale over the next three months. The negative impact of ...

  • London Stock Exchange – Moving Ahead With Technology

    The London Stock Exchange (LSE), situated in Paternoster Square in the city of London, is not only the largest exchange in Europe in terms of listed companies by market value, but is also ...

  • Russell 3000 Index – Setting Investment Benchmarks

    The preliminary annual Russell 3000 Index, released late Friday 13 June 2008, indicates that the market value of stocks incorporated in the renowned Russell Investments Index has dropped by ...

  • A Look at Market Capitalization

    A public company’s market capitalization (also referred to as market cap) is the total market value of its outstanding shares i.e. all issued shares in the hands of investors. This measurement ...

  • Random Walk Hypothesis

    The financial theory known as the "random walk hypothesis" proposes that stock market prices develop according to a random walk and, therefore, stock market prices are completely unpredictable. ...

  • Uncertainty Reigns on Wall Street

    The market suffered yet another blow on Wednesday 11 June, when the Dow at the New York Stock Exchange fell by more than 200 points. Ongoing concerns over rising oil prices, along with fears ...

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