The small and mid cap universe of stocks is huge in the domestic market. For US investors, the international universe is much large with thousands of firms waiting to be discovered. To boost returns and potentially find multi-baggers investors can search for these firms in overseas markets. Some of the reasons for picking companies in …
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Diversification is one of the most important strategies to follow when investing in equity markets. Putting all eggs in one basket is never a good idea. Many investors who piled into tech stocks during the dot-com era lost everything due to lack of diversification. Diversification can take many forms including spreading one’s asset among various …
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The top 10 dividend stocks of Canada are shown in the chart below: Click to enlarge Note: Data shown is as of April 20, 2018 and is based on the domestic market. For US investors, Canada charges a lower withholding taxes on dividends for regular taxable accounts(except REITs). There is no dividend withholding taxes for …
The retail industry is one of the worst performing industries in recent years. Hundreds of retail companies have gone bankrupt some almost overnight. A variety of factors are attributed to the retail apocalypse with Amazon being the prime reason. However blaming Amazon(AMZN) for all failures is an easy way out. Real reasons such as moronic …
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