Dividend stocks offer many advantages over non-dividend stocks. I have written many articles on this topic before. Recently I came across an interesting note on the dividend edge in the Strategy -Quarterly Views report of Socgen’s Private Banking Group. From the report: There are many reasons why dividend-paying stocks should be favoured over non-dividend stocks in the …
Here are the Canadian stocks getting a lift from the anything-but-oil rally (Financial Post) These ETFs Need an Exorcism (Bloomberg) A Smart Way to Include International Stocks in Your Portfolio (WSJ) The real story of US coal: inside the world’s biggest coalmine (The Guardian) What facts about the United States do foreigners not believe until they …
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Earlier I posted the Periodic Table of Commodities and Emerging Markets. The following the table for annual returns of the S&P 500 index from 2004 to 2013: Click to enlarge Source: U.S. Funds
“A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing next to it.” – Mark Twain Investing in mining companies is highly risky. It is not wise to simply invest in them based on reading some financial reports. For startup mining firms everything is based on speculation. Many years ago a Canadian gold miner called Bre-X collapsed …
Some of the Asian economies have grown tremendously in the past few decades. For example, communist China used to be closed third-world country with mostly an agrarian economy. Today the country is one of the largest economies in the world and has become the factory floor for the entire world. With a fast-growing middle-class population and …
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