The sectors to benefit from the Japanese revival (FE Trustnet) Americans go into debt to buy food, gas (MarketWatch) Five mutual fund lessons learned over 25 years (The Star) How a 2% fee adds up to $350,000 over time: Mayers (The Star) A world run for shareholders (Le Monde) Britain took more out of India that it put in – …
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On May 31, 2013 I wrote an article on National bank of Greece when it implemented a second reverse split and suggested that investors avoid Greek stocks. From the article: National Bank of Greece (NBG) has implemented a reverse split for the 2nd time in less than two years. In November, 2011 when the reverse …
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Dividend-paying stocks generally yield better returns than non-dividend payers in the long run. However companies that increase their dividend payments consistently over the years perform even better in terms of total return than dividend payers. The following chart shows that dividend growers were the best in total returns for the period shown from a Canadian …
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In this post let’s take a brief look at the top trading partners of Germany last year.As Europe’s largest economy and an export-oriented economy Germany trades with some of the other major countries. The chart below shows the top trading partners of Germany: Click to enlarge Source: De Statis Among the top five export destinations, three …
Thousands of foreign stocks trade on the U.S. market. According to the depository BNY Mellon, currently 386 foreign companies trade on the organized exchanges and 2,388 trade on the OTC markets. With such a wide universe, US investors can cast a wide net to identify potential investment opportunities. Many high-quality large cap multinationals such as Total. …
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