The Dogs of the Dow is an investment strategy that involves picking annually the ten highest dividend-paying Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks. Applying this theory to the British equity market, the Dogs of the FTSE 100 strategy selects the 10 FTSE 100 stocks with the highest dividend yields. This strategy has worked out well in the past in …
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India is one of the major economies among the emerging countries. Recently the Indian government announced that the economy grew at 7 % in the quarter when a demonitization program was launched to unearth untaxed and illegal money held by wealthy Indians.This figure has surprised many economists and investors. From a Bloomberg article Mihir Sharma: Being the …
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European equities continue to trade at a discount compared to their developed world peers. For many years, when Europe suffered from one crisis after another including the soverign debt crisis, may rounds of Greek debt crisis, etc. investors fled European equities fearing total meltdown of the political and economic order. More recently, last year the …
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