SMU grad starting salary

Class of 2007 average $3,040
Class of 2006 average $2,850

Class of 2007 top 20 per cent $5,600.
Class of 2007 top 12 per cent $4,000 and $10,000 a month
one in eight graduates or 69 of them from across all degree programmes

9 are making between $8,000 and $10,000 a month
mostly from investment banking or management consulting

Biggest co.s by Market Cap

No.1 Petro China Market Cap USD 0.5trn

Lead

Top 3 producers 22%

Top 4 producers 26%

Top 5 producers 30%

Zinc

Top 3 producers 20%

Top 4 producers 25%

Top 5 producers 29%

Aluminium

Top 3 players 31%
Top 4 players 36%
Top 5 players 40%

Nickel

Top 3 producers 44%

Top 4 52%

Top 5 59%

Copper

Top 5 players control 35% of market

Global commodities

Al 38mn t
Cu 18mn t
Ni 1.4mn t
Zn 11mn t
Pb 8.2mn t
Ag 23.8 kt
Au 3.3 kt
Pt 218t

Most expensive wines

Single red bottle (drinkable) USD 5,800 - Romanee Conti 1990
Single red bottle (undrinable) USD 160,000 - Chateau Lafite 1787 bears Thomas Jefferson's initials

Single white bottle (drinkable) USD 23,929 - Le Montrachet (Romanee Conti) 1978
Single white bottle (undrinable) USD 56,588 - Chateau d'Yquem 1787 bears Thomas Jefferson's initials

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S&P lowest point

Dvd yield 6%
PE 7x
In early 1980s

Motorcycles

46mn units sold worldwide
No.1 Honda
No.2 Yamaha 15% gbl mkt shr

World's most expensive painting

No.5 Jackson Pollock USD 140mn
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer Gustav Klimt USD 135mn
Mao Andy Warhol USD 120mn
Garçon à la Pipe Pablo Picasso USD 104mn

Online ads (US) mkt

Mkt size USD 25.9bn
Google USD 7.9bn
Yahoo USD 3.6bn
MSN USD 1.7bn
AOL USD 1.5bn
Others USD 11.1bn

DRAM industry

Major players shr OPM 4Q06 OPM 4Q07
Samsung 32% 12% 4%
Hynix 20% 16% -30%
Elpida 15% 10% -29%
Qimonda 12% 6% -110%
Micron 12% -2% -57%

Crappy industry, stay 500 miles away!