I've just been looking at the results of the 2009 Fortune Global 500 and it's quite sobering. The biggest employer in the world is Wal-Mart with 2.1 million employees! Can you imagine handing out the payslips?
Slightly more sobering - if you sort the results by the biggest losses our very own Royal Bank of Scotland comes in second with a stonking loss of $43.1billion. The 'winner' is Fannie mae with a massive $58.7 billion loss.
Top 6 most profitable companies in the world? All oil or gas providers.
Have a look at http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2009/index.html for more big numbers.
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