Top 25 NASDAQ Stocks Ranked by Market Cap

Last week Jason Zweig discussed about the popping of the tech bubble ten years ago in the article When Bubble Burst: Companies Won, Investors Lost. From the article: “The Internet did change business forever, just as investors had predicted. And a handful of technology companies did strike it rich. But by far the biggest beneficiaries …

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Foreign Markets Offer Higher Dividend Yields

The current yield on the S&P 500 is just over 2%. Last year the yield was 2%. Many foreign markets offer higher dividend yields than the U.S. This is especially true with most developed countries. In 1979, the S&P 500 had a 5.53% yield. But since 1990, it has steadily decreased  and reached a low …

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Knowledge is Power: Big Gold,China, Debt Doom Edition

Special report: Are the days of “big gold” over? As cash pressures mount, gold majors move to mine the markets, which are proving more lucrative than the mining of gold. Built on a Lie – The Fundamental Flaw of Europe’s Common Currency A new forecast from RBC Economics says Canada’s economy is poised for real …

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Can the Chinese Renminbi Replace the US Dollar as the World’s Reserve Currency?

China was the world’s largest economy before 1890. According to Professor Angus Maddison, author of the Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run, China’s role in the world has changed dramatically in the last thousand years and China is likely to become the world’s largest economy by 2015 beating the US. The author mentioned that …

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