Weeks after Wayne Chow was born he was issued what is now known as a C.I.45 Certificate, when the Chinese Exclusion Act was brought in to replace the Chinese Head Tax.

Total revenues of the Global 2000, $32 trillion, are up only 7.6 per cent from $29.8 trillion one year earlier. This year also marks only the second time that the increase in assets fell below the ...

Each of the 2000 lists has a minimum cutoff value in order for a company to qualify: sales $5.8 billion, profits of $375 million, assets of $13.8 billion and market value of $7.4 billion.

For the last 23 years, Forbes has compiled the Global 2000 list, ranking the world’s 2,000 largest companies by revenue, profit, assets and market value, with equal weights for each of the four ...