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IR Magazine has unveiled its global list of the top 50 companies for investor relations, ahead of the awards ceremony in Paris on October 2.   Each year IR Magazine surveys investors and analysts in Brazil, Canada, Europe, Greater China, South East Asia and the US to identify the winners of our regional awards.  For the Global Top 50 list, the IR Magazine research team looks at how companies perform in the regional awards across s...

It was a week dominated by market turmoil. The week began with a market rout. You know it was significant because major players in the market system consistently referred to it as a rout. Big tech companies lost $162 bn in value in Monday’s ‘market rout’, led by a dramatic fall in Apple, reported CNBC. And Lael Brainard, the Federal Reserve’s bo...

At the start of the week, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index suffered its worst fall in a week based upon growing worries among investors over how the city’s massive protests could hurt the regional economy, reported CNN. But US stocks closed little changed on Monday as investors tempered their expectations with US-China trade talk expectations taking place, while awaitin...

The new Fortune Global 500 list, published by the magazine this week, sees more China-based companies – including 10 from Taiwan – make the list than those from the US in what Allan Murray, Fortune president and CEO, describes as marking ‘an important world power transition’. The record number of Chinese companies making the list has hit 129 – up from 120 last year, and overtaking the number of US firms that have made the annual ranking of the wor...