At some eight times market capitalisation, that turnover is itself among the highest in the world.
Its market capitalisation has dropped by an amount roughly equal to the entire value of Ford.
This gives Sanofi the market capitalisation, and thus the ammunition, to launch this bid.
For some, collapsing share prices mean that this burden now exceeds their market capitalisation.
It is now France's 39th-largest company by market capitalisation on the back of possible Internet forays.
His company's market capitalisation has climbed from 2 billion baht in 1993 to 17 billion baht today.
Asian stockmarkets account for 34% of global market capitalisation, ahead of both America (33%) and Europe (27%).
IPO, especially in Saudi Arabia, which already accounts for roughly half of the region's total market capitalisation.
Frank Russell urges its clients to use world market capitalisation, rather than plan liabilities, as an investment guideline.
Jack Welch boosted General Electric's market capitalisation by 4, 500% at a time when its old rival, Westinghouse, was disintegrating.
Last year was catastrophic, even by 2002's demanding standards: the industry's market capitalisation fell by about half (see chart).
Strikingly, no fewer than 24 of Europe's biggest companies by market capitalisation have some shares owned by a government.
David Atkinson, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, reckons that a merger would increase the banks' combined market capitalisation by 40%.
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Besides T-Online and Terra Networks, Freeserve, the next biggest by market capitalisation, was set up by Dixon's, a British retailer.
The company recently became the most valuable US firm after its market capitalisation overtook that of oil company Exxon Mobil.
Put another way, the combined market capitalisation of Japan's financial giants is less than the capitalisation of just one American bank.
Indeed, the value of its property portfolio exceeds its market capitalisation, suggesting that the shops could be put to better use.
Thanks to its plunging share price, its market capitalisation is now barely 20% of what it was when Mr Welch left.
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Selling assets makes a lot of sense for a company which now has a break-up value much higher than its market capitalisation.
State-controlled companies account for 80% of the market capitalisation of the Chinese stockmarket, more than 60% of Russia's, and 35% of Brazil's.
The market capitalisation of some of the weakest halved in two days.
Some want it to have influence commensurate with the size of America's equity markets, which account for almost half of global market capitalisation.
Gavin Casey, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, favours dividing shares in proportion to market capitalisation, a measure on which London dominates.
It owns 55% of Leighton, which is such a successful construction company in Asia-Pacific that its market capitalisation is nearly twice that of its parent.
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Put another way, says Dresdner, if its industrial holdings are stripped out of its market capitalisation, there is little left: its banking business is undervalued.
By market capitalisation, Priceline.com, which runs reverse auctions for airline tickets and a few other things (including groceries), is worth as much as American Airlines.
Three of the four largest banks by market capitalisation are state-controlled.
Much of the rise in market capitalisation will result from more companies issuing shares as they float on local stockmarkets, rather than from rising share prices.
The merger, which would create the world's 22nd-largest bank in terms of market capitalisation, is only the latest stage in the effort to create a Canadian superbank.
The proposed link-up would also create the biggest bank, by market capitalisation, in the euro area, as well as the largest foreign financial institution in Latin America.
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