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This paper's discussion focuses on the phenomenon of the global financial crisis impact on the largest multinational corporations from the dominant economic sectors. Based on selected sectors in terms of the largest market capitalization rankings by the Financial Times Global 500, the author attempts to show how the individual values have changed within the period from 2008 to 2012, including: market capitalization, turnover and profit of sectors. Moreover, presented is the correlation between these variables as well as its strength. In addition, in the following paper, the author has isolated sectors which are related with so-called new economy to examine whether these sectors are less prone to the phenomenon of the crisis than the other sectors.