The UK has the largest number of companies listed in the US markets after Canada. Among the many British ADRs, some stocks are good picks for dividend income. To select the British ADRs that are excellent dividend payers I used the The International Dividend Achievers Index. Mergent created The International Dividend Achievers Index to track …
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Investors looking for consistent dividend-paying foreign stocks are attracted to Canadian equities. There are many Canada-based companies that pay decent dividends and have excellent dividend growth rates too. In order to identify some of the high dividend growth Canadian stocks we shall use the Canadian High Yield Dividend Growth 30 Portfolio Index created by Mergent, …
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The Top 10 Canadian Banks based on Assets held as of Dec, 2008 are listed below: [TABLE=230] Source: BankScope The largest Canadian bank based on assets is the Royal Bank of Canada (RY), which is also the most profitable among the big five banks. The second and third largest banks are TD Bank(TD) and Bank …
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It is common knowledge that foreigners own many of the assets in the U.S.. This is true especially with financial assets where China and Japan hold some of the largest chunks of U.S. treasuries. But what about direct investments?. Do foreign companies invest more in the U.S than U.S. Multi National Companies (MNCs) invest abroad? …
Overdraft fees charged by banks in the U.S. is another example of Gotcha Capitalism, a term coined by MSNBC’s Bob Sullivan who also wrote a book by the same name. The book shows how big businesses rip off billions of dollars from U.S. consumers in the form of hidden fees. Overdraft fees is an example …
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