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Canada S&P/TSX Composite Index Historical Annual Returns 1924 To 2019: Chart

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The historical annual returns of Canada’s benchmark S&P/TSX Composite index from 1924 to 2019 are shown in the pyramid chart below. Canadian stocks yielded a positive return in about 73% of the time. So in the long run, stocks tend to offer positive returns despite crises such as the dot-com crash, financial crisis of 2008-09, etc. …

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The World’s Most Peaceful Countries 2020 – U.S. Rank 121

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The Institute for Economics and Peace based in Sydney, Australia published the Global Peace Index 2020 report that ranked 163 countries and territories of the world based on their level of peacefulness. All the countries were evaluated and assigned a Global Peace Index (GPI) which was used to rank them. From the report: The Global …

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The World’s Top 20 Dividend Payers 2020

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Janus Henderson published the latest edition of Global Dividend Index report yesterday. The report showed global dividends plunged by about a fifth in Q2 this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic. However for the first two tech companies – Microsoft (MSFT)and Apple (AAPL) – appeared in the top 10 global dividend payers list. The Top …

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The Top US Regional Banks 2020

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The Top Regional Winners in the US listed in the Global Finance magazine’s The World’s Best Banks 2020 are shown the table below. These banks are the top banks in the respective region. For example, the Great Lakes region includes states of  Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Minneapolis-based US Bancorp(USB) is …

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