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Quote from: jaDEB on October 22, 2014, 03:23:40 pm

10. Microsoft Corporation
9. BP plc
8. Bank of China Ltd.
7. Agricultural Bank of China Limited
6. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
5. Exxon Mobil Corporation
4. China Construction Bank Corporation
3. Gazprom OAO.
2. Apple Inc.
1. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited

Put another way....
10. USA
9. UK
8. China
7. China
6. S. Korea
5. USA
4. China
3. Russia
2. USA
1. China

10 years ago this would have been a very different picture.

A lot of China's in that list.

NPN - 
SGL - 
APN - Sold mine 
KIO - 

How hard can it be jaDEB? Just stay away from gold, frikkin fhtrsw&#$ ....

NPN - 
10c - 
Assore - 
Harmony -  :laugh:- sad.

Tencent Holdings Ltd. (700) is connecting ovens, televisions, air conditioners and other appliances to its WeChat and QQ instant-messaging services amid a push to expand its mobile-application store.

Asia’s second-largest Internet company is working with appliance manufacturers and third-party developers to allow users to control home hardware from their phones and tablets, Chief Operating Officer Mark Ren said today at the Tencent Global Partner Conference in Hainan, China. The plan is to build up its application platforms, which Ren said have so far attracted 2.4 million third-party programs.

Tencent is pushing its instant-messaging services WeChat and QQ to become distribution channels for other money-making apps besides mobile games, its biggest sales generator. The Shenzhen, China-based company has enlisted 5 million outside developers and employees at startups to create apps for its platforms and attract more of China’s half billion mobile Internet users, Ren said.

“Tencent’s open platform will start embracing all smart hardware devices, as we are setting up a hardware open platform for QQ and WeChat,” Ren said. “Our open platform isn’t just about software, but also hardware and offline.”

The company has been selective in the third-party developers it allows to access its platform, Ren said. The QQ version of the product, QQ Connect, was released today.

Behind Alibaba

The company was also looking to invest in 100 startups over the next three years, Lin Songtao, vice president of Tencent’s social networks group, said today. Tencent would take stakes in the companies and use its Internet resources to help them reach target valuations of $100 million each, Lin said.

Tencent gained 0.2 percent to close at HK$121.90 in Hong Kong trading. The stock has risen 23 percent this year, compared with a 1.7 percent increase for the benchmark Hang Seng Index.

QQ and WeChat helped Tencent’s mobile-game revenue rise 67 percent to 3 billion yuan in the three months ended June 30, from a quarter earlier.

The initial success of making money from the two apps has helped boost Tencent’s market value to about $146 billion, making it the biggest Asian Internet company by market value after Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA)

Mobile Games

QQ, which began as an instant-messaging service on desktop computers and was adapted for use on mobile devices, has about 829 million monthly active users, according to its second-quarter earnings report. WeChat has 438 million.

Revenue from China’s online gaming market is projected to expand to 225 billion yuan ($37 billion) by 2017, from an estimated 115 billion yuan this year, according to IResearch, a Shanghai-based Internet consultant.

Tencent has offered a number of popular games, such as Timi Run Everyday and Timi Match Everyday, through its own studio. It also has introduced third-party apps including Candy Crush and is working with Kakao Corp. and Nexon Co.

WeChat may be worth as much as $64 billion given the potential for the service to make money, Elinor Leung, an analyst at CLSA Ltd., wrote in a March 10 report.

@bloomberg.net

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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — When MarketWatch covers Chinese stocks, we usually focus on those listed in Hong Kong. The reason for this is that few outside of China — mainly just institutional investors with approved quotas — are able to buy what’s sold in Shanghai, Shenzhen and the other mainland Chinese bourses, while any investor in the world can buy Hong Kong-listed names.

But this is all about to change in a big way next Monday, when China launches its game-changing “Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect” program. For the first time ever, retail investors around the world will be able to invest in mainland Chinese equities.

In some high-profile cases, the same companies have stock listing in both Shanghai (known as “A-shares” when denominated in yuan) and Hong Kong (“H-shares”), though here too, opportunities exist in the form of arbitrage, as a given company’s A-shares and H-shares rarely trade at the same level.

“Many international investors are completely excited,” Charles Li, the chief executive of bourse operator Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEx) 0388, +4.95% HKXCF, -0.41% told MarketWatch at a recent media availability.

“This is probably the last frontier market that has yet to open,” Li said, “and they [global investors] probably have never seen a rebalancing possibility like this scale anytime in past history.”

As the head of Hong Kong’s stock exchange, such excitement is clearly in Li’s interest, but he’s not the only one who sees the Stock Connect as a sea change for global stocks.

Goldman Sachs, for instance, said in a recent note that the opening of Shanghai to foreign investors is an opportunity “simply too big to ignore.”

“The scheme essentially ... creates the world’s second-largest equity market by market cap,” second only to the New York Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs said. In cash-trading terms, the new China mega-bourse would come third globally, behind the NYSE and Nasdaq.

The Goldman Sachs analysis notes that the Stock Connect could eventually “add 855 companies with over $1 billion of listed market cap to the investable universe, assuming full liberalization” in which foreign investors can buy all A-shares listed not just in Shanghai, but also on the Shenzhen exchange as well.

That said, there will be limits to the action, at least at first, with A-share purchases made from Hong Kong restricted to a daily quota of $2.1 billion. Likewise, Shanghai-based investors will be held to turnover of $1.7 billion a day.

Beyond the changes for investors, many market participants have said that the new system is also an important piece in China’s market-reform measures.

“It’s a state policy rather than a simple move concerning one or two cities’ stock markets, “ says China Merchants Securities managing director Ronald Wan. “The scheme is a key step in the Beijing government’s plan to reform the country’s capital market and financial system, and a crucial part of China’s broader and structural economic reform.”

Here is something I did. Orca will like this, If u bought R210,150 in 2009 of the following shares, now it will be.

    2009     Now   
CML    R 8.30     R 96.15     R 2 434 448.49
BIL    R 231.00     R 298.00     R 271 102.60
SGL    R 15.52     R 19.39     R 262 552.09
BVT    R 121.99     R 301.30     R 519 044.14
SAB    R 209.00     R 629.00     R 632 461.00
AGL    R 276.70     R 233.89     R 177 636.37
SAP    R 29.00     R 43.50     R 315 225.00
HAR    R 77.00     R 19.89     R 54 284.20
NPN    R 281.15     R 1 413.31     R 1 056 400.84
APN    R 67.00     R 395.00     R 1 238 944.03
OML    R 16.05     R 33.90     R 443 868.22
FSR    R 15.05     R 47.15     R 658 376.91
SPP    R 67.00     R 128.00     R 401 480.60
OCE    R 29.50     R 84.50     R 601 955.08
MTN    R 120.00     R 247.00     R 432 558.75
EOH    R 8.50     R 108.00     R 2 670 141.18
MPC    R 33.03     R 229.00     R 1 456 989.10

EOH actually outperformed CML...

If u bought R 2,500,000 in 2009 of the following shares, now it will be

   2009   Now   
CML    R 8.30     R 96.15     R 28 960 843.37
BIL    R 231.00     R 298.00     R 3 225 108.23
SGL    R 15.52     R 19.39     R 3 123 389.18
BVT    R 121.99     R 301.30     R 6 174 686.45
SAB    R 209.00     R 629.00     R 7 523 923.44
AGL    R 276.70     R 233.89     R 2 113 209.25
SAP    R 29.00     R 43.50     R 3 750 000.00
HAR    R 77.00     R 19.89     R 645 779.22
NPN    R 281.15     R 1 413.31     R 12 567 223.90
APN    R 67.00     R 395.00     R 14 738 805.97
OML    R 16.05     R 33.90     R 5 280 373.83
FSR    R 15.05     R 47.15     R 7 832 225.91
SPP    R 67.00     R 128.00     R 4 776 119.40
OCE    R 29.50     R 84.50     R 7 161 016.95
MTN    R 120.00     R 247.00     R 5 145 833.33
EOH    R 8.50     R 108.00     R 31 764 705.88
MPC    R 33.03     R 229.00     R 17 332 727.82

The lessons to learn are to choose carefully and not to wait before you start investing