In an earlier article on South Korea stocks I have suggested that investors avoid them. This month the South Korean government announced tax policies that may force companies to spend their cash piles. Some companies may decide to pay increase their dividend payouts as a result of this policy change. In addition the government announced a stimulus …
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Frontier market stocks have soared so far this year. Compared to emerging and developed markets the performance of frontier market stocks is exceptionally good year-to-date(YTD). As of Aug 6th, the MSCI Frontier Market Index increased by 19% YTD while the MSCI indices for Emerging and Developed Markets were up by only 6% and 2.2% respectively. The …
In this post lets take a quick look at the Ten Largest Indian Companies by Market Capitalization in the domestic market. Before we get to that here is a note on the Sensex. India’s benchmark S&P BSE Sensex index is up 21.25% year-to-date. After reaching an all-time record of over 26,300 the Sensex closed at 25,329 yesterday. The …
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One of the issues that investors in NYSE/NASDAQ-listed foreign stocks face is what to do when a company decides to delist from any of these two exchanges. In this post let us discuss some of the options available to deal with this issue: Why do foreign companies delist from exchanges? There are many reasons a …
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U.S. stocks, as measured by the S&P 500 index outperformed Canadian stocks last year. This was because the S&P 500 has a heavy concentration of IT stocks. This sector accounted for some 40% of the out-performance of the index last year against Canada’s benchmark S&P/TSX Composite index according to a research report by CIBC World …
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