Some of the ETFs for individual countries have high allocations to financial stocks. While this has been good for performance until 2006, it has become a drag on many of these ETFs as financials have been crushed during this bear market. Many bank stocks such as ING, LYG are well off their 52 week highs. …
Even in bear markets some good companies list their stocks in the stock exchanges.So its a worth a look to keep an eye on them. The following are some of the new foreign stocks (ADRs) that were listed in the New York Stock Exchange: 1. Safe Bulkers, Inc. (SB) is in the shipping industry.Transports grain,ore …
From August 4, 2008 E.ON’s ordinary stock listed in Germany started trading at a split adjusted basis of 3:1. This was done by the EON board since earlier it was trading for 100 EUR in Germany. In addition EON changed the ratio of the ADR share (EONGY) from 3 ADR shares to 1 to the …
Photo: Barcelona Palace, Spain When looking at stocks for good dividend yields,”Payout Ratio” is one of the many factors that have to evaluated. Payout ratio simply means the amount a company is paying out to investors in the form dividends from its earnings. High pay out ratio shows that the company wants to hand out …
Photo: Petrohue Falls and Mt. Osorno, Chile In this bear market, it is not easy to make money.One has to look outside of the box for opportunities. This means going to emerging markets. Many centuries ago, young men in Europe would go to East because thats where the riches were there. Nowadays its not necessarily …