{"id":1068,"date":"2015-03-20T09:19:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T09:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2015-03-20T09:19:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T09:19:24","slug":"hsbc-2014-annual-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"HSBC 2014 Annual Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HSBC, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"HSBC\" href=\"www.hsbc.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.hsbc.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The financials are HSBC are useful to know:<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"HSBC Financials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10048&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=hsbc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10048&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=hsbc<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Its Market Capitalisation is <strong>\u00a3107,879m<\/strong><br \/>\n(\u00a3107 Billion).<br \/>\nThe dividend <strong>yield is 6%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An international bank, whose annual report makes interesting reading:-<\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\"Annual Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hsbc.com\/investor-relations\/investing-in-hsbc\/latest-financial-information?WT.ac=HGHQ_Ir_h1.2_IMS_On\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hsbc.com\/investor-relations\/investing-in-hsbc\/latest-financial-information?WT.ac=HGHQ_Ir_h1.2_IMS_On<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Profit before tax was US$22.8bn =<\/p>\n<p>The balance sheet size is vast.<\/p>\n<p>Total reported assets were US$2.6 trillion = \u00a31.76 Trillion = <strong>\u00a31762 Billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is larger than the Annual UK GDP. So the balance sheet assets are over 100% of the UK GDP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HSBC, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. [www.hsbc.com] The financials are HSBC are useful to know: [http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10048&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=hsbc] Its Market Capitalisation is \u00a3107,879m (\u00a3107 Billion). The dividend yield is 6%. An international bank, whose annual report makes interesting reading:- [http:\/\/www.hsbc.com\/investor-relations\/investing-in-hsbc\/latest-financial-information?WT.ac=HGHQ_Ir_h1.2_IMS_On] Profit before tax was US$22.8bn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}