Archive of entries posted on November 2015

Knowledge is Power: American Shareholders Cult, easyJet, Oil Age End Edition

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How the cult of shareholder value is cannibalizing corporate North America, Financial Post Why you may need more international stock, Fidelity How easyJet revolutionised European air travel, This is Money Fixed Income – What’s the Difference Between Duration and Maturity?, Blackrock Blog Cyclical vs. Defensive Stocks, SocGen Going Global: Selecting ADRs or Foreign Stocks, Schwab  Note: Old article …

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Infographic: The World’s Ten Biggest Oil and Gas Companies

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Oil prices have fallen below $40 per barrel. However major oil companies have paid their regular dividends and have announced plans to continue to maintain the dividend payouts.This is good news for investors in the oil producers as opposed to investors in oil exploration firms, oil equipment makers and others whose stocks have been crushed hard …

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Knowledge is Power: Home Sweet Home for Chinese ADRs, Italian Households, Developing World Edition

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U.S.-Listed China Firms Hurry Homeward, WSJ ‘I resent the people who got lucky’, BBC Check out Hulbert’s 15 favorite dividend stocks, MarketWatch Biggest Emerging Markets Banks 2015, Global Finance Re-emerging at Last? The Contrarian Case for Emerging Market Equities, Thornburg Investment Management Should we continue to use the term ‘developing world’?, World Bank A dash …

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The U.S. Corporate Tax Rate is the Highest In the Developed World

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The U.S. Corporate Tax Rate is one of the highest in the world especially among the developed world peers. The  total corporate tax rate at 39.1% is the highest in the developed world as shown in the chart below. This rate is higher than the OECD Average at 24.8%. Click to enlarge Source: The Heritage Foundation …

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Knowledge is Power: Burqua ETF, US Dividends, Chaebol Edition

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BlackRock Seeks Approval for Nontransparent ETFs (WSJ) US dividends double in five years, Fidelity UK Also see UK dividends lag global growth in payouts, CityWire Emerging markets: is the worst over?, CityWire It’s Payback Time for Korean Chaebol, Bloomberg America’s poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs, The Guardian Global Wealth and the Long-Term Investor, Credit …

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