The French election is currently under-way. Tomorrow global investors may react based on the outcome of this divisive election. For US investors, only 11 French companies now trade on the organized exchanges. However those willing to go to the OTC markets have an additional 102 companies to choose from. Among the major firms trading on the NYSE …
The total number of U.S. listed companies has continued to fall since the 1990s. From 1980 thru 1996 the number of listed companies rose steadily. But since then the number has declined year-after-after. The consequences of the low number of listed companies available for investors is huge. According to a research report from Credit Suisse, …
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One of the new features that I have added on this site is the Dividend History of Stocks. Currently the dividend history of all the components of the Dow are posted. More dividend history pages of other companies will be added regularly. You can check out the dividend history pages by clicking on the Dividend …
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Silicon Valley tech companies dominate the list of the world’s top eight companies by market capitalization. The five tech firms in the list are: Apple(AAPL), Alphabet(GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN) and Facebook(FB). Old-world giants like Exxon Mobile(XOM) and Johnson & Johnson(JNJ) have lower market caps than the tech titans. Click to enlarge Source: Silicon Valley behemoths …
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The US corporate tax rate has stayed at the 40% rate for many years now. But in many developed countries the tax rate has been been declining in the past few years as shown in the chart below: Click to tn enlarge Source: Charles Schwab, KPMG data as of 4/26/2017. The U.S. statutory corporate …
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