One of the survivors of the dot-com era is the online travel company priceline.com Inc (PCLN). Yesterday its stock price closed at $1,062.17 per share. The share price first crossed the $1,000.00 on September 20th. So I was wondering which foreign stocks traded above $100.00 per share. According to BNY Mellon data, the following 14 foreign …
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British equities are lagging in performance over their developed world peers so far this year. The FTSE 100 is up only 9.4% while the S&P 500, Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC-40 are up by 18.5%, 13.3% and 14.4% respectively.The following chart shows the year-to-date performance of FTSE 100 (in blue) against these three major indices: …
The banking sector was one of the hardest hit sectors during the global financial crisis. However the sector has rebounded strongly in most countries as the global economy recovered from the abyss of those dark days of the crisis. Banks wrote off billions of dollars of bad debt and cleaned up their balance sheets. Many …
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Mexican stocks have been performing better than the Brazilian stocks since last year. While Brazil was adversely impacted due to the slowdown in the Chinese economy, currency exchange volatility and domestic political issues, Mexico has remained stable. The Mexican economy is more closely tied to the U.S. economy and hence Mexico has benefited from the …
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Global investors generally tend to invest in emerging market equities primarily for their price appreciation potential. The reasoning behind this theory is that the economies of these markets are still developing and they have plenty of room to grow in order to catch up with their developed world peers. Hence stocks should soar higher and …
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