The pharmaceutical in industry is a multi-billion dollar industry especially in developed countries where drug prices are very high and consumers are able to afford them. For drug companies, the actual manufacturing of the drugs is just one portion of the overall costs of sale prices of the drugs. Marketing plays a huge role accounting …
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Here is an interesting chart showing the yield on long government bonds of US and UK. In the 1970s and 80s, British bonds yielded over 12% while US bonds over 7% and 10% respectively. Since then the yields have fallen dramatically for both country bonds. At the end of last year 20 year government bonds …
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During the 1800s the U.S. was an emerging market. During that time the Tsars ruled Russia and Russian equities trading on the St.Petersburg Stock Exchange performed better than U.S. equities on the New York Stock Exchange. Click to enlarge The above chart shows that Russian stocks vastly outperformed U.S. stocks from 1865 thru 1917. However …
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Investors looking to add stocks for the long-term (5 years or more) can consider companies in the utility, telecom and other sectors that generally have high dividend yields. These sectors pay dividends of more than 4% – which is double of the yield on the S&P 500 index. Five stocks currently yielding more than 4% …
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Food retail is a very low margin business in the U.S. The industry is extremely competitive and from an investment point most of them do not seem to offer good returns to investors. Fierce competition drives down prices on a daily basis and companies have to eke a profit on huge sales volumes. Another factor …