One of the important metrics to evaluate pharmaceutical companies is the total number of drugs that are in the pipeline. Companies not only depend on new drugs for future revenue growth but also look to new drugs in development to replace revenues lost when patents expire on their existing drugs. The Top 10 pharmaceutical companies based …
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The chart below shows the price returns (excluding dividends) of exchange-listed foreign bank stocks year-to-date. Among the top performers are Argentine banks Banco Frances(BFR) and Banco Macro(BMA). As the Indian equity market is one of the best performing market in the world this year it is not surprising to see Indian banks ICICI(IBN) and HDFC (HDB) …
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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