The tax rates on dividends paid out to shareholders by companies are generally higher in Europe than in the US. However European firms tend to have higher dividend yields than their American peers due to the dividend culture. With that said, the following chart from Tax Foundation shows the dividend tax rates in European OECD …
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The equity market in India reached a new peak last week with the benchmark Sensex reaching a record high of 64,768 on yesterday Friday, June 30th. It ended the day at 64,718. The index has been a tremendous run since the troughs of the Covid-19 panic in early 2020. Since then it has crossed it …
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The US national debt (or) gross federal debt of the US has exceeded $32.0 Trillion according to an article at Peter G.Peterson Foundation. For a normal person this figure seems so huge and is difficult to comprehend with so many zeros. The below infographic puts this mountain of a debt into perspective: Click to enlarge …
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Dividends account for a substantial portion of the long-term total returns. This is especially true in countries or regions where the dividend culture exists. For instance, the S&P 500 dividend yield is currently just 1.55%. Most European countries on the other hand have dividend yields of 3% or more. The FTSE 100 for example has …
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Over the long term dividends constitute a significant portion of the total returns of any dividend paying stock or investment. Due to the effects of compounding returns tend to multiple many times over the years even if the start point of the dividend yield is low. For instance, the current dividend yield on the S&P …
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