The iShares EAFE exchange-traded fund (amex: EFA - news - people ), for example, tracks the performance of 829 companies in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region and has a rock-bottom expense ratio of 0.35%.
Tens of millions of homeowners and property owners in the U.S., Europe, the Gulf region and Asia have seen the value of their assets decrease sharply.
Depositors and investors looking for safe banks to park their cash in these turbulent times should look beyond the US, to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
The company works with premier reseller and technology partners throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
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International contracts have also grown significantly, with fourth-quarter signings surging 141% in Europe and 295% in the Asia Pacific region.
The company will now attempt to expand its market share in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region and Africa to offset the predicted losses in the U.S., the company said.
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Roughly half of all South-East Asian migrants are thought to have remained in the neighbourhood, and nearly two-thirds of migrants from eastern Europe and Central Asia have stayed in their own region.
Volumes in both snacks and beverages increased 5% in Europe, while snacks increased 15% in the Asia, Middle East and Africa region.
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The presentations span from Pacific region, through Asia and Europe to North America and will provide an insight into most successful present day practices.
But it would certainly make a nervous Europe stretch out a pleading hand to the United States, as this newly aggressive Russia poked its finger into the Baltic area, the Balkans and the explosive region where Europe meets Muslim south-west Asia.
Its co-passenger will be Intelsat 17, a telecommunications satellite covering a region that will extend across Asia and into Europe and Africa.
The region stands athwart three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Always a trading region, the Gulf is neatly wedged halfway between Europe and Asia a crossroads of East and West.
The survey was global, with 35% of respondents coming from the Americas, 30% from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and 35% from the Asia Pacific region.
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Indianapolis Airport was ranked first in North America, Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport is the best in Europe, and Seoul Incheon Airport soared to the top in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mike has played an instrumental role in establishing G-WADI regional networks in Asia, Africa, LAC, Arab region and recently in Europe.
This compares to eight from Europe and highlights a trend of the cost of living increasing in the Asia-Pacific region.
EU. Among the arguments invoked for Turkey's membership are the promotion of human rights, bridling its generals, fostering European commercial interests in Central Asia, keeping fundamentalists in the region at bay, the security of Europe and the safety of oil supplies.
The rest of the Asia-Pacific region managed a 1.3% expansion, and in Europe - where the use of chips in consumer electronics and cars outweighs computer use - sales were up 5.8%.
In IBM's last quarterly report, just 40.5% of the company's revenue came from North and South America, while 35.8% came from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and 20.8% came from Asia and the Pacific region.
The original idea was to do one region after another: Eastern Europe's managers would be appointed first, and those in Asia last.
And while only 35 and 32 percent of those in North America and Europe respectively will pay more for socially conscious products, 55 percent of those in the Asia-Pacific region will.
Among the overseas revenue, the Asia-Pacific region saw revenue of CNY 37.4 billion, while Europe, Middle East and Africa recorded CNY 77.4 billion and the Americas contributed CNY 31.8 billion.
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Though financial markets in the Asia-Pacific region (ex Japan), Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa performed only slightly better than their Old World counterparts, GDP growth clocked in at an impressive 11.3%.
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Yet the bulk of the region's money is still flowing to established financial centres in Europe, America and other parts of Asia.
Shipments grew 1.4 percent in the company's region that encompasses Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but fell about 10 percent in both Asia and the European Union.
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