A clearing house is an intermediary between buyers and sellers of financial instruments. Further, it is an agency or separate corporation of a futures exchange responsible for settling trading accounts, clearing trades, collecting and maintaining margin monies, regulating delivery, and reporting trading data.
All the world's 10 most valuable companies, including Alphabet, Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT), are based in the U.S., according to a USA TODAY analysis of data from S&P Capital IQ based on the S&P Global 1200 index. Alphabet's rise to No. 1 with a market value Tuesday of $554.8 billion is a historic moment.
The most valuable companies in the world. Apple may have the highest market cap of any company in the world â at least for now â but that doesn't make it the most valuable company in the world, according to Forbes. The Global 2000 ranks companies on a score calculated from sales, profits and assets as well as market value. These are the 20 most valuable public companies in the world.