Of all the ratios that are available to evaluate a company, dividend yield is probably one of the best ways to measure the performance of the company. Since dividends have to be paid out of a company’s profits there are not many ways to manipulate this figure unlike others. Any company that does not pay …
Many Canadian companies generally tend to have higher dividend yields than their peers south of the border. For example, the dividend yield of the benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index was 3.3% at the end of February relative to just 2.5% for the S&P 500 according to FT market data. Since Canada is mostly a natural resources-based …
One way to invest in foreign financial companies is via their American Depository Receipts if they are listed on the US markets.Recently I came the KBW Global Financials (ex-u.s.) Index created by investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. The components of the index include some of the major global financials that US investors can access easily thru …
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Many Central Banks were the sellers of gold from 2002 to 2009 during which time gold prices rose steadily.As they sold, private investors have been the net accumulators of gold many via the ETF route. As a result, currently ETFs hold more than 2,500 metric tons of the stuff approaching the holdings of the mighty …