Most of you will probably have never heard of Hong Kong jeweller Chow Tai Fook, but the reality is that this little known company (outside of China anyway) is about twice as big as Tiffany. The company has raised some $2 billion in its IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange. more ›

And in a class all by itself, the US$1 trillion(1,000,000,000,000) club. On Monday, the 4 billion A-share offering, priced at 16.7 yuan per share, finished its first day of trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange at 43.96 yuan, rising as high as 48 yuan intraday. At US$1.005 trillion, PetroChina’s market cap is more than twice that of its US peer, Exxon Mobil (USD $486 billion), even though Exxon Mobil generated four times as much revenue... more ›