The World’s Biggest 20 Dividend Payers in the first quarter of this year was published in the recently released Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index – June 2017 report by Janus Henderson Investors, These giants alone paid out $57.81 billion in dividends. Sources: Global growth boosts dividends in first quarter, CityWire UK Janus Henderson Global Dividend …
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Some of the large auto companies in the world such as Ford, Toyota, Nissan, etc. have circles in their logos. I think the best one is the Mercedes Benz logo. Below is a cool infographic showing the evolution of Germany’s top auto makers and others: Click to enlarge Source: Daily Infographics
Pakistan used to a frontier market according to MSCI classification. However on June 1, 2017 the index provider reclassified the country as an emerging market and now the country is a constituent of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. I recently came across an article in the BBC that discussed the story of Mattias Martinsson’s investment adventures …
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Gold prices closed at XX$/oz yesterday. Since late 2012 gold prices have been on a slow decline although they have recovered some since last year.Despite the recovery prices are nowhere near $2000/0z that some expert predicted at the peak of the gold bull market. In the past gold has had brutal price plunges during bear markets. …
The Indian equity market is one of the best performing markets so far this year. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex is up by over 17% year-to-date. Despite the strong gains, Morgan Stanley’s Jonathan Garner, the chief Asia and emerging markets equity strategist predicts the index may reach 34,000 by June, 2018 according to an article in …
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