When considering dividend-paying stocks, some investors tend to select stocks with high dividend yields rather than the long-term total return. However this is not a winning strategy. Instead of falling into the so-called “yield trap”, investors are better off picking stocks based on total return over the long-term, according to a research report by Invesco …
Currently the top U.S. tax rate on qualified dividends is 15%. This rate applies to tax-payers who are in the 25% to 35% tax brackets. This means that hypothetically an ordinary American in the 25% tax bracket having an earned income of $50,000 and getting a $1,000 in qualified dividends pays $150 in dividend taxes …
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The Coca-Cola Company trading under the ticker KO is different from the bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc trading under the ticker CCE on the NYSE. As a multi-national company, Coca-Cola has bottlers in many countries of the world and each operate as an independent company and their stocks trade under separate tickers. In this post, lets take a …
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The Argentine stock market is depressed this year. Argentina’s Merval index is down 8.89% year-to-date(YTD) while Brazil’s Bovespa is up 1.4%, Chile’s IPSA is flat and Mexico’s IPC index has shot up 13.1%. The difference in performance between the Merval and the three other indices is much higher over the past 5 years. The five-year …
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The German economy is the largest economy in Europe. Last year the GDP reached 2.5 Trillion Euros. In the third quarter of this year the economy grew by a seasonally adjusted 0.2% relative to the previous quarter. In the third quarter, the total number of employed persons stood at 41.7 million and the provisional household …
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