The current Total Public Debt Outstanding is over $19 Trillion or $19,428,079,384,183.27 to be more precise according to the Treasury Department, Out of this debt mountain, the debt held by the public is over $14 Trillion. The total US debt held by foreign holders stood at $6,281 billion as of June, 2016 according to Treasury …
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The stock price of Petrobras(PBR), Brazilian oil firm closed at $8.73 on Friday August 12th. The market cap stood at about $57 billion. This is a far cry from the peak market cap a few years ago when Petrobras was the rising superstar of the oil world and was considered the crown jewel of emerging Brazil. In 2008, …
The contribution of dividends to total returns is significant. In decades when stocks yielded negative returns the return from dividends offer a cushion to the overall portfolio returns. The chart below shows the contribution of dividends to the total return of the S&P 500 by decade: Click to enlarge Source: Dividends Matter, Rational Advisors From the above …
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Equity investors are bombarded with a multitude of statistics on a daily basis mostly showing past data. However the past does not predict the future and for the most part past performance does not mean predict the future performance of a stock. With the US Presidential election coming up, one of the many stats that …
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