Carlos Pizzarotti wrote:
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:00:15 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since 1999, GM has fallen from 23rd to 46th. WalMart has dropped from 25th to 31st. #1 corporation in sales ExxonMobil has dropped from 26th to 28th even as its sales went from $164 billion to $340 billion. Taking Croatia at $58 billion as #100 and Marathon Oil at #99 on the mixed lists, there are now 67 countries and 23 corporations in the top 100 for 2005. Poland went from $154 billion to $453 billion The Phillipines went from $75 billion to $409 billion The US went from $8.7 trillion to $12.4 trillion China went from $1.1 to $8.6 trillion Japan shrunk from $4.4 to $3.9 trillion India grew from $460 billion to $3.8 trillion Of course we all know not to take the peak of the internet boom/economy as the starting point for much of anything statistically meaningful, right? Also, if you look at profits instead of revenues, you see #1 Exxon Mobil at $36 billion #2 Citigroup at $24 billion on revenues of $131 billion, #3 Bank of America at $16 billion on revenues of $84 billion, #4 GE at $16 billion on revenues of $157 billion, Wal-Mart is at $11 billion, GM at -$10 billion, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/full_list/ http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html [Note, there might be some sloppiness in that I started with IMF instead of World Bank figures for a couple of the companies that I didn't bother to correct] |
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