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A: WSP Global Inc., $80.95, symbol WSP on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 100.8 million; Market cap: $8.6 billion; www.wspgroup.com), is a professional services consulting firm....
A: Paycom Software, $196.84, symbol PAYC on New York (Shares outstanding: 58.5 billion; Market cap: $12.0 billion; www.paycom.com), is a provider of comprehensive, cloud-based payroll and human resource management software....
A: SmartCentres REIT, $32.31, symbol SRU.UN on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 141.9 million; Market cap: $5.4 billion; www.smartcentres.com), has ownership interests in 152 mostly Walmart-anchored shopping centres with total leasable area of 34.0 million square feet across Canada....
A: Splunk Inc., $111.85, symbol SPLK on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 150.2 million; Market cap: $17.2 billion; www.splunk.com), makes software that lets organizations gain real-time operational intelligence through analysis of their data....
A: Roper Technologies Inc., $336.71, symbol ROP on New York (Shares outstanding: 103.8 million; Market cap: $35.1 billion; www.ropertech.com), develops software and engineered products through a number of its businesses for a variety of specialized markets....
A: Frontier markets are developing countries, but with economies considered still too small to be emerging markets.

While risky, the best of frontier-market stocks can offer sound prospects for growth and good fundamental value.

Many frontier countries have sizable populations with favourable demographics, including a rising middle class, as well as low penetration of basic goods and services....
Blue chip stocks are big, well-established, dividend-paying corporations with strong business prospects.

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The Italian economy ranks among the biggest in the world but has offered investors very little growth for the past decade....
A: NICE Ltd. (ADR), $152.79, symbol NICE on Nasdaq (ADRs outstanding: 62.3 billion; Market cap: $9.6 billion; www.nice.com), is an Israel-based company, specializing in telephone voice recording, data security and surveillance, as well as systems that analyze this recorded data....
A: Lloyds Banking Group plc (ADR), $3.07, symbol LYG on New York (ADRs outstanding: 17.6 billion; Market cap: $50.6 billion; www.lloydsbankinggroup.com) offers a range of banking and financial services through its subsidiaries and associated companies....