The shares are down 30% from their recent highs and currently yield 6.8% based on the latest payout, but like most European countries, its dividend varies year-to-year, though it is consistently higher than American oil companies.
Like most French or European citizens, I would add a point: So what?
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In the end the Zulus like most other African tribes faced with European colonization were vanquished.
For years it sold its best players to European teams, like most Brazilian clubs, but with the 19-year-old Neymar, Santos made an exception.
Today, this hedge fund is short the stock market indexes of the European nations most suffering like France, Italy and Spain.
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But in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Beijing, the China view looks more like that of middle class Eastern European nations like the Czech Republic than an emerging market where most people still earn just a few hundred dollars a month.
Ageing radicals might like to think west European cities were the most tumultuous places to be in the late 1960s.
But like most Chinese classics it is now almost unknown to European audiences: Chinese plays have been all but absent from British theatres since the fading of the fashion for "Chinoiserie" in the 19th Century.
This partnership, mainly with private employers, allows the state to provide no more than a basic income for pensioners, representing a much smaller proportion of average earnings for most retired people than in America or European countries like France (see chart 2).
Most would like the pair to announce a joint initiative to pave a revolution for European government financing along the lines of mutual guarantees for joint issues of Eurobonds.
But, maddeningly, the institution that needs to do most the European Central Bank is hanging back even as the pressure on countries like Spain, whose sovereign-bond yields rose to euro-era highs this week, intensifies.
Yes, it is good to a couple countries, mainly Asian countries like South Korean and China, but other countries suffer, these countries include U.S., Japan and most European countries.
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