The Dividend Yields of the world’s largest economies is shown in the chart below: Click to enlarge Source:Dividends And Buybacks: The Last Hurrah?, Global Finance Among the developed markets, Australia offers the highest dividend yield at 4.18% followed by Norway and the UK. The dividend yields of the developed markets are shown in the following …
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Oil prices have soared in the past year gaining around 40%. With the summer travel season coming soon drivers in the US can be expected to drive higher demand for gasoline in coming months. Despite the dramatic and surprising boom in oil prices energy and related sector stocks have not kept up up until now. …
The Zimbabwe Stock Market fell 98% in one week and was shut down during the hyperinflation years of former dictator Mugabe. This is a shocking fact that some investors may not know. Below is a short excerpt from an article at Research Affiliates: During the three months August–October 2008, the Zimbabwean dollar plunged from 10 to …
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President Trump recently pulled the US out of the Iran deal bringing fresh confrontation with the middle east country. Many European countries against this unilateral action. However Trump has pulled off the deal simply ignoring the Europeans, most of whom are allies. Some political pundits also note that US image has also been burnished with …
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