WSJ By The Numbers - Top 10 for Oct.17
Start-Ups
Hope Web Ad Boom Spreads Wealth: The top 10 online-ad sellers,
including Google and Yahoo, currently control 71% of the online ad market,
according to research from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and
PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
In the first half of this year, Internet advertising revenue hit a record $7.9 billion, up 37% from the same period last year, according to the IAB. In the first half of this year, venture capitalists invested more than $262 million into the Web 2.0 companies in the U.S., according to Venture One.
| China's Reserves Near Milestone, Underscoring Its Financial Clout: China's holdings of foreign currencies and securities will top $1 trillion in a few days -- a sum greater than the annual economic output of all but nine countries. China's foreign reserves totaled $987.9 billion as of Sept. 30 and are growing by roughly $20 billion a month. Roughly 70% of the Chinese reserves are believed to be in U.S. dollar assets, 20% in euros. | $987.9B China Reserves |
| Chrysler Sees '07 Gain in U.S. Share: Chrysler's U.S. market share fell to 12.8% in the first nine months of the year from 13.6% in the same period in 2005, according to Autodata Corp. | 12.8% Chrysler |
| Steeling Jobs: Since 1993 the U.S. government has absorbed two-thirds of Big Steel's pension "legacy" costs ($9 billion), which was one of the biggest barriers to the industry's consolidation. | $9.0B Steel Pension |
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400,000,000: The U.S. population will soon top 300 million and by 2050 there will be 400 million. By 2050 the entire European Union -- without the addition of Muslim Turkey -- will have a largely aging population of less than 450 million. The vast majority of Americans -- upward of 80% -- prefer single-family homes over apartments, while no more than 10% to 15% want to live near the central core. |
400M US Population |
| Debt Buyers vs. The Indebted: While hedge funds are becoming increasingly important owners of debt, private-equity firms are becoming increasingly important borrowers. Of the total $366 billion raised in the loan market for noninvestment-grade companies this year, $165 billion went to the portfolio companies of private-equity firms, says Standard & Poor's. | $366B Loan market |
| Idemitsu, Accordia Release Details On Japanese IPOs: Equity-market financing activity in Japan raised $47 billion in the first three quarters of 2006, a 64% jump from a year earlier and the second-largest amount in a decade, according to data provider Thomson Financial. | $47B Japan Equity |
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