A few years ago The Republic of Ireland had one of the fastest growing economies in Europe. Then growth slowed and in the past two years or so the Irish economy stagnated and growth came to a standstill. Irish stocks have been hit pretty hard as well in 2008 – especially the banks. As of …
One of the many indices published by STOXX is the “Dow Jones STOXX Global Dividend 100 Index”. This index “offers investors the ideal tool to track high-dividend-yielding companies in the Dow Jones STOXX Global 1800 Index, a broad yet liquid benchmark index that covers the Americas, Europe and Asia/Pacific”. The 100 stocks in this index …
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Recently I came across the following research paper on the importance of dividends published by Dow Jones back in 2004. ABSTRACT “Numerous trends are examined that suggest recent increased interest in dividend income from equities is likely to continue and perhaps increase further well into the future. Existing equity indexes are found to measure a …