Mark Mobius, the executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management’s emerging markets group has said that another financial crisis is inevitable since the causes of the previous one haven’t been resolved. From a news report in the Financial Post: “There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we haven’t solved any …
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The United Nations (UN) warned of a crisis of confidence in the U.S. dollar should the weakening of the dollar continue and added that this would put the entire global financial system at risk. The U.S. dollar has continued its downward trend against other major currencies in the past decade as shown in the chart …
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Pakistan is one of the long-term allies of the U.S. due to its strategic location in Asia. However the country is also a haven for all types of global terrorist outfits. So to be sure any type of investment in Pakistan is not for the faint-hearted. As a wild-west frontier market it is not an …
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Mergent’s Indxis has created a Dividend Achievers Index for the UK. The index is weighted using a free float adjusted market capitalization and is reconstituted once a year.The index is composed of 99 British stocks. The components of the index are selected based on the following criteria: Companies must incorporated in the United Kingdom. Stocks …
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One of the risks of investing in foreign stocks is the exchange-rate risk. For example, the movement of the domestic currency where the stock is listed against the US dollar can adversely or positively impact the return of that investment for US-based investors. A strengthening of the dollar reduces foreign stock returns to US investors …
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